ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION CONTROL METHOD

A method and apparatus for an adaptive quantization control is disclosed. The present invention decomposes one picture into a plurality of blocks, encodes the picture in the block unit and controls quantization by obtaining a first activity from a comparison of the activity of the current block to be encoded and that of the entire blocks; obtaining a second activity from a comparison of motions of neighboring blocks; and controlling the quantization using the first activity if the first activity is below a reference value and using the second activity if the first activity exceeds the reference value.