Scalability within media coding allows for content adaptation towards heterogeneous user contexts and enables in-network adaptation. However, there is no straightforward solution how to encode the content in a scalabl...
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Scalability within media coding allows for content adaptation towards heterogeneous user contexts and enables in-network adaptation. However, there is no straightforward solution how to encode the content in a scalable way while maximizing rate-distortion performance. In this paper we provide encoding guidelines for scalable video coding based on a survey of media streaming industry solutions and a comprehensive performance evaluation using four state of the art scalablevideo codecs with a focus on high-definition content (1080p).
HTTP-based video streaming has been gaining popularity within the recent years. There are multiple benefits of relying on HTTP/TCP connections, such as the usage of the widely deployed network caches to relieve video ...
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HTTP-based video streaming has been gaining popularity within the recent years. There are multiple benefits of relying on HTTP/TCP connections, such as the usage of the widely deployed network caches to relieve video servers from sending the same content to a high number of users and the avoidance of traversal issues with firewalls and NATs typical for RTP/UDP-based solutions. Therefore, many service providers resort to adopt HTTP streaming as the basis for their services. In this paper, the benefits of using the scalable video coding (SVC) for a HTTP streaming service are shown, and the SVC based approach is compared to the AVC based approach. We show that network resources are more efficiently used and how the benefits of the traditional techniques can even be heightened by adopting the scalable video coding (SVC) as the video codec for adaptive low delay streaming over HTTP. For the latter small playout-buffers are considered hence allowing low media access latency in the delivery chain and it is shown that adaptation is more effectively performed with the SVC based approach. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper describes the CELTIC project on "scalable video coding Impact on Networks" with the focus of designing a streaming system based on the scalable video coding extension of the H.264/AVC standard. Th...
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Transmission of compressed video over packet networks with nonreliable transport benefits when packet loss resilience is incorporated into the videocoding, One promising approach to packet loss resilience, particular...
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Transmission of compressed video over packet networks with nonreliable transport benefits when packet loss resilience is incorporated into the videocoding, One promising approach to packet loss resilience, particularly for transmission over networks offering dual priorities such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks, is based on layered coding which uses at least two bitstreams to encode video, The base-layer bitstream, which can be decoded independently to produce a lower quality picture, is transmitted over a high priority channel, The enhancement-layer bitstream(s) contain less important information, so that packet losses are more easily tolerated, The MPEG-2 International Standard provides four methods to produce a layered video bitstream: data partitioning, signal-to-noise ratio scalability, spatial scalability, and temporal scalability, Each of these techniques was included in the standard in part for motivations other than loss resilience, This paper compares the performance of these techniques (excluding temporal scalability) under various loss rates using realistic length video material and discusses their relative merits taking implementation issues into consideration. Nonlayered MPEG-2 coding gives generally unacceptable video quality for packet loss ratios of 10(-3) for small (single ATM cell) packet sizes, Better performance can be obtained using layered coding and dual-priority transmission, With data partitioning, the simplest to implement among the three, cell loss ratios of 10(-4) in the low-priority layer are definitely acceptable, while for SNR scalable encoding, cell loss ratios of 10(-3) are generally invisible, even to experienced viewers, Spatial scalable encoding can provide even better visual quality under packet losses;however, it has a high implementation complexity.
scalable video coding(SVC)has been widely used in video-on-demand(VOD)service,to efficiently satisfy users’different video quality requirements and dynamically adjust video stream to timevariant wireless *** the 5G n...
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scalable video coding(SVC)has been widely used in video-on-demand(VOD)service,to efficiently satisfy users’different video quality requirements and dynamically adjust video stream to timevariant wireless *** the 5G network structure,we consider a cooperative caching scheme inside each cluster with SVC to economically utilize the limited caching storage.A novel multi-agent deep reinforcement learning(MADRL)framework is proposed to jointly optimize the video access delay and users’satisfaction,where an aggregation node is introduced helping individual agents to achieve global observations and overall system ***,to cope with the large action space caused by the large number of videos and users,a dimension decomposition method is embedded into the neural network in each agent,which greatly reduce the computational complexity and memory cost of the reinforcement *** results show that:1)the proposed value-decomposed dimensional network(VDDN)algorithm achieves an obvious performance gain versus the traditional MADRL;2)the proposed VDDN algorithm can handle an extremely large action space and quickly converge with a low computational complexity.
To support spatial scalability, the scalable extension of H.264/AVC (SVC) uses video cropping or uniform scaling to downscale the original higher-resolution (HR) sequence to a lower resolution (LR) sequence. Both oper...
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To support spatial scalability, the scalable extension of H.264/AVC (SVC) uses video cropping or uniform scaling to downscale the original higher-resolution (HR) sequence to a lower resolution (LR) sequence. Both operations, however, will cause critical visual information loss in the resized frames. To address the problem, we propose a low-overhead content-adaptive spatial scalability SVC (CASS-SVC) coder consisting of three main modules: a mosaic-guided video retargeter, a side-information coder, and a non-homogeneous inter-layer predictive coder. The proposed video retargeting scheme first constructs a panoramic mosaic for each video shot to obtain a compact shot-level global scaling map which is then used to derive the scaling maps of individual frames in the shot. The side information required for the non-homogeneous scaling, including the global scaling maps and the spatial corresponding positions of individual frames to the panoramic mosaic, are then efficiently coded by the side-information coder. The non-homogeneous interlayer prediction coding tools are used to provide good predictions to reduce the bitrates for coding the HR frames. Our simulation results demonstrate that, compared to existing CASS-SVC coders, our method cannot only well preserve subjective quality of important content in the LR sequence, but also significantly improves the coding efficiency of HR sequence.
This paper presents a study of quality on scalablevideo sequences coded using the scalable extension of the H.264 standard (SVC). A group of experiments was performed to measure, primarily, the effects that transmiss...
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This paper presents a study of quality on scalablevideo sequences coded using the scalable extension of the H.264 standard (SVC). A group of experiments was performed to measure, primarily, the effects that transmission instability has in the quality of the videos and the relationship among three scalability methods (spatial, temporal and quality) in terms of quality. A set of experiments was performed to measure the subjective quality using the ACR-HRR methodology and recommendations from ITU-R Rec. BT.500 and ITU-T Rec. P.910. The results show that the amount of instability is not as important as just the presence of instability, that video quality can be deteriorated due to instability and that temporal scalability usually produces videos with worse quality than spatial and quality scalabilities.
This paper proposes a new spatial scalable and low-complexity video compression algorithm based on multiplication free three-dimensional discrete pseudo-cosine transform (3-D DPCT). Practical results which show the co...
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videos are often required to be transmitted over different media. Scalability is an important aspect of video transmission. In case of challenged network, graceful reconstruction from a truncated bitstream becomes an ...
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The authors propose a scalable video coding algorithm for low bit rate failure-free video transmission. In the failure-free video transmission, two channels are utilized to transmit the same video source. In the recei...
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