scholarly journals Efficient Region-of-Interest Scalable Video Coding with Adaptive Bit-Rate Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Grois ◽  
Ofer Hadar
Keyword(s):  
Video Coding ◽  
Rate Control ◽  
Scalable Video Coding ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Regions Of Interest ◽  
Scalable Video ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Bit Rate ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Video Model

This work relates to the regions-of-interest (ROI) coding that is a desirable feature in future applications based on the scalable video coding, which is an extension of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard. Due to the dramatic technological progress, there is a plurality of heterogeneous devices, which can be used for viewing a variety of video content. Devices such as smartphones and tablets are mostly resource-limited devices, which make it difficult to display high-quality content. Usually, the displayed video content contains one or more ROI(s), which should be adaptively selected from the preencoded scalable video bitstream. Thus, an efficient scalable ROI video coding scheme is proposed in this work, thereby enabling the extraction of the desired regions-of-interest and the adaptive setting of the desirable ROI location, size, and resolution. In addition, an adaptive bit-rate control is provided for the region-of-interest scalable video coding. The performance of the presented techniques is demonstrated and compared with the joint scalable video model reference software (JSVM 9.19), thereby showing significant bit-rate savings as a tradeoff for the relatively low PSNR degradation.

Region-of-Interest Processing and Coding Techniques

2013 ◽  
pp. 126-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Grois ◽  
Ofer Hadar
Keyword(s):  
Video Coding ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Scalable Video Coding ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Scalable Video ◽  
Video Adaptation ◽  
End User ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Video Model

This chapter comprehensively covers the topic of the Region-of-Interest (ROI) processing and coding for multimedia applications. The variety of end-user devices with different capabilities, ranging from cell phones with small screens and restricted processing power to high-end PCs with high-definition displays, have stimulated significant interest in effective technologies for video adaptation. Therefore, the authors make a special emphasis on the ROI processing and coding with regard to the relatively new H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) standard, which have introduced various scalability domains, such as spatial, temporal, and fidelity (SNR/quality) domains. The authors’ observations and conclusions are supported by a variety of experimental results, which are compared to the conventional Joint Scalable Video Model (JSVM).

scholarly journals Region-of-interest-based rate control scheme for high-efficiency video coding

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa Meddeb ◽  
Marco Cagnazzo ◽  
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Video Coding ◽  
Rate Control ◽  
Control Algorithm ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Bit Allocation ◽  
Bit Rate ◽  
High Efficiency Video Coding ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Rate Control Algorithm

This paper presents a novel rate control scheme designed for the newest high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard, and aimed at enhancing the quality of regions of interest (ROI) for a videoconferencing system. It is designed to consider the different regions at both frame level and coding tree unit (CTU) level. The proposed approach allocates a higher bit rate to the region of interest while keeping the global bit rate close to the assigned target value. The ROIs, typically faces in this application, are automatically detected and each CTU is classified in a region of interest map. This binary map is given as input to the rate control algorithm and the bit allocation is made accordingly. The algorithm is tested, first, using the initial version of the controller introduced in HEVC test model (HM.10), then, extended in HM.13. In this work, we first investigate the impact of differentiated bit allocation between the two regions using a fixed bit rate ratio in intra-coded frames (I-frames) and Bidirectionally predicted frames (B-frames). Then, unit quantization parameters (QPs) are computed independently for CTUs of different regions. The proposed approach has been compared to the reference controller implemented in HM and to a ROI-based rate control algorithm initially proposed for H.264 that we adopted to HEVC and implemented in HM.9. Experimental results show that our scheme has comparable performances with the ROI-based controller proposed for H.264. It achieves accurate target bit rates and provides an improvement in region of interest quality, both in objective metrics (up to 2 dB in PSNR) and based on subjective quality evaluation.

scholarly journals P2P video streaming combining SVC and MDC

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco de Asís López-Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Video Coding ◽  
Video Streaming ◽  
Packet Loss ◽  
Scalable Video Coding ◽  
Video Quality ◽  
Scalable Video ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Multiple Description ◽  
Video Distribution ◽  
P2p Video Streaming

P2P video streaming combining SVC and MDC In this paper we propose and evaluate a combined SVC-MDC (Scalable Video Coding & Multiple Description Video Coding) video coding scheme for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) video multicast. The proposed scheme is based on a full cooperation established between the peer sites, which contribute their upload capacity during video distribution. The source site splits the video content into many small blocks and assigns each block to a single peer for redistribution. Our solution is implemented in a fully meshed P2P network in which peers are connected to each other via UDP (User Datagram Protocol) links. The video content is encoded by using the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) method. We present a flow control mechanism that allows us to optimize dynamically the overall throughput and to automatically adjust video quality for each peer. Thus, peers with different upload capacity receive different video quality. We also combine the SVC method with Multiple Description Coding (MDC) to alleviate the packet loss problem. We implemented and tested this approach in the PlanetLab infrastructure. The obtained results show that our solution achieves good performance and remarkable video quality in the presence of packet loss.

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