The rapid growth of the Educational System (ES) has changed traditional learning behavior and presented a new situation to learners. To address the ever increasing needs and challenges associated with ES, a strategic ...
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The rapid growth of the Educational System (ES) has changed traditional learning behavior and presented a new situation to learners. To address the ever increasing needs and challenges associated with ES, a strategic methods and techniques of Adaptive Learning System (ALS) is adapted, which the primary objective is the adaptation of content, presentation, and navigation. In this paper, we suggest a new framework to adapt the Content Presentation to the preferences of learners and physical disability with learners who suffer from the visual and hearing limitations to stimulate the content. This framework is intended to be integrated in Dynamic Adaptive Hypermedia System (DAHS)in a manner that increases the learner’s perceived quality, high level of adaptivity and reliability.
In adaptive bitrate streaming, is it necessary to pre-transcode each video and cache all video chunks? To answer this, the authors designed a network function virtualization (NFV)-based virtual cache (vCache) to dynam...
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In adaptive bitrate streaming, is it necessary to pre-transcode each video and cache all video chunks? To answer this, the authors designed a network function virtualization (NFV)-based virtual cache (vCache) to dynamically manage video chunks and intelligently provision resources.
IPv6 Segment Routing is a recent IPv6 extension that is generating a lot of interest among researchers and in industry. Thanks to IPv6 SR, network operators can better control the paths followed by packets inside thei...
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(纸本)9781538662809;9783903176089
IPv6 Segment Routing is a recent IPv6 extension that is generating a lot of interest among researchers and in industry. Thanks to IPv6 SR, network operators can better control the paths followed by packets inside their networks. This provides enhanced traffic engineering capabilities and is key to support Service Function Chaining (SFC). With SFC, an end-to-end service is the composition of a series of in-network services. Simple services such as NAT, accounting or stateless firewalls can be implemented on a per-packet basis. However, more interesting services like transparent proxies, transparent compression or encryption, transcoding, etc. require functions that operate on the *** this paper, we extend the IPv6 implementation of Segment Routing in the Linux kernel to enable network functions that operate on the bytestream and not on a per-packet basis. Our SRv6Pipes enable network architects to design end-to-end services as a series of in-network functions. We evaluate the performance of our implementation with different microbenchmarks.
In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion in the growth of social media networks, powered by the proliferation of handheld smart devices with high processing capabilities and a plethora of sensors including high...
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In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion in the growth of social media networks, powered by the proliferation of handheld smart devices with high processing capabilities and a plethora of sensors including high-resolution cameras. A key component of information exchange in such networks, accounting for the majority of network traffic, is video. Currently, the de facto video coding standard in use is H. 264/AVC which was sufficient in addressing the challenges posed by HD more than a decade ago, but is less than efficient in the new era of 4K smart device cameras and 8K TV screens. Given that newer standards exist and are capable of achieving higher compression rates at the same quality compared to H. 264/AVC, we envision that within the next few years, the related industry will shift toward one of the newer video coding standards. For a social media network, such a transition poses manifold challenges, one of them being the need to transcode previous content in the newly adopted standard. In this paper, we illustrate a framework for performing such transition in a smooth manner. The framework, algorithms and strategies developed are applicable, perhaps with minor changes, regardless of the targeted standard for adoption. We detail on framework components through simulation experiments, using as a yardstick the adoption of high efficiency video coding. Results demonstrate that depending on the targeted social platform, different strategies should be applied, while the cost and benefits of the paradigm shift may vary significantly.
The demand for high-quality multimedia service in handheld devices has increased with the advance of consumer electronics technologies. However, there are inherent performance limits in such mobile devices due to low ...
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The demand for high-quality multimedia service in handheld devices has increased with the advance of consumer electronics technologies. However, there are inherent performance limits in such mobile devices due to low processing power, requirements for low power consumption, and limited storage capacity. These factors have obviously prevented high-performance multimedia services from being feasible. In addition, most of the mobile devices support distinct multimedia data formats for video and audio codecs, bit rate, and screen size. Therefore, streaming media or receiving data from other users' devices essentially requires additional data translation along with a transcoding operation. However, most of the processors that are used in mobile devices or even in personal media servers cannot provide sufficient processing power for transcoding. To address the problem, this paper proposes an efficient offloading method for media transcoding can be applied in current commercial products. The system is designed on top of Java and provides sufficient transcoding performance for media streaming with low-end processors.
The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to wavelet transcoding provides input for several wavelet-based post-processing techniques of the DCT-coded image/video signals. transcoding in domain transform avoids inverse trans...
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The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to wavelet transcoding provides input for several wavelet-based post-processing techniques of the DCT-coded image/video signals. transcoding in domain transform avoids inverse transform and retransform operations and saves computation. In this paper, we propose a new technique for transcoding the DCT blocks to wavelet coefficients directly in the transform domain. We perform filtering, IDCT and downsampling operations in a single combined step. The proposed technique achieves the same computational result as that of a spatial domain technique. The transcoding matrices used in the proposed technique are found to satisfy certain symmetric and sparse properties, which are exploited to reduce the computational cost. As the number of zeros in the DCT coefficients is significantly higher compared to the spatial domain, computational cost reduces significantly. Also, with the proposed technique, it is possible to speedup the operation by ignoring some elements in the filtering matrices whose magnitudes are smaller than a threshold value. We demonstrate the application of the proposed transcoding for deblocking of the DCT-coded images in wavelet domain.
In this work, we describe ParSy, a framework that uses a novel inspection strategy along with a simple code transformation to optimize parallel sparse algorithms for shared memory processors. Unlike existing approache...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538683859
In this work, we describe ParSy, a framework that uses a novel inspection strategy along with a simple code transformation to optimize parallel sparse algorithms for shared memory processors. Unlike existing approaches that can suffer from load imbalance and excessive synchronization, ParSy uses a novel task coarsening strategy to create well-balanced tasks that can execute in parallel, while maintaining locality of memory accesses. Code using the ParSy inspector and transformation outperforms existing highly-optimized sparse matrix algorithms such as Cholesky factorization on multi-core processors with speedups of 2.8× and 3.1× over the MKL Pardiso and PaStiX libraries respectively.
We describe an efficient implementation for converting MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoded data to Dolby Digital AC-3. We describe many techniques to exploit the information in the AAC bitstream to simpl...
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We describe an efficient implementation for converting MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoded data to Dolby Digital AC-3. We describe many techniques to exploit the information in the AAC bitstream to simplify the AC-3 encoder. These techniques can be straightforwardly used in other transcoding schemes between different multimedia standards.
This paper compares the coding efficiency between the range coder in the Opus coder and the Huffman coder used in the MP-3 (MPEG-I Layer 3) and MPEG-2 AAC. The results show that the range coder has efficiency advantag...
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This paper compares the coding efficiency between the range coder in the Opus coder and the Huffman coder used in the MP-3 (MPEG-I Layer 3) and MPEG-2 AAC. The results show that the range coder has efficiency advantage of about 9 % at a rate of 128 kbps. The simulation, in a sense, indicates that transcoding from the Opus format to MP-3 or AAC format will lead to quality degradation.
This article describes a fast transrating solution for HEVC based on classification and machine learning techniques. Two classifiers are trained to predict the range of CTU quadtree depths that will be searched to fin...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538644591;9781538644584
This article describes a fast transrating solution for HEVC based on classification and machine learning techniques. Two classifiers are trained to predict the range of CTU quadtree depths that will be searched to find the best CTU partitioning. Three approaches are proposed for reducing the number of features used by the classifiers, two based on feature selection, and one based on feature transformation using autoencoders. A full transrating framework based on x265 is built for model training and evaluation. Experimental results using the x265 encoder show that an average 41.81% computational complexity reduction can be achieved at the cost of a tolerable 0.29% Bjontegaard-Delta bitrate, outperforming competing methods.
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