The authors apply a radial basis function (RBF) network to constant bi
t rate control for an MPEG2 video encoder. The nonstationary property
of the video data has been exploited effectively by using the RBF netw
ork as a rate estimator in a feedforward rate control algorithm. The p
erformance of this scheme is evaluated in comparison with Test Model 5
(TM5), by measuring video rate and picture quality.