The demand for access to advanced, distributed media resources is nowadays omnipresent due to the availability of Internet connectivity almost anywhere and anytime, and of a variety of different devices. This calls fo...
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The demand for access to advanced, distributed media resources is nowadays omnipresent due to the availability of Internet connectivity almost anywhere and anytime, and of a variety of different devices. This calls for rethinking of the current Internet architecture by making the network aware of which content is actually transported. This paper introduces scalable video coding (SVC) as a tool for Content-Aware Networks (CANs) which is currently researched as part of the EU FP7 ALICANTE project. The architecture of ALICANTE with respect to SVC and CAN is presented, use cases are described, and finally research challenges and open issues are discussed.
This work addresses the tradeoff between quality fairness and system efficiency for scalablevideo delivery to multiple users over OFDMA wireless networks. We consider a cross-layer optimization framework seeking to m...
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This work addresses the tradeoff between quality fairness and system efficiency for scalablevideo delivery to multiple users over OFDMA wireless networks. We consider a cross-layer optimization framework seeking to maximize the sum-PSNR corresponding to average user rates, subject to relaxed PSNR-fair constraints. More specifically, a pure quality-fairness (PF) problem is solved first to determine the maximum PSNR value obtained by imposing the same PSNR level to all users. Next the constraints in the PF problem are relaxed by allowing the relative difference between the PSNR of each video and the PF PSNR value to be within some range [0, sigma]. Thus, the parameter sigma controls the tradeoff between quality fairness and system efficiency. The PF problem is equivalent to the quality fairness problem proposed by Cicalo and Tralli, which was solved using a vertical decomposition approach. Further, we convert the optimization problem with the relaxed fairness constraints into a convex problem and solve it using established techniques. Our simulation results show that by varying the value of sigma, a wide range, densely populated, of tradeoff points between quality fairness and efficiency can be achieved. Additionally, a subjective quality assessment reveals that while the maximum efficiency scheme (ME), i.e., when sigma = infinity, may compromise the quality of the high demanding videos, the PF scheme may sacrifice the quality of the low demanding videos. On the other hand, by providing a trade-off between PF and ME, the proposed scheme has the potential of finding a middle ground where all users are satisfied.
Multimedia content adaption strategies are becoming increasingly important for effective video streaming over the actual heterogeneous networks. Thus, evaluation frameworks for adaptive video play an important role in...
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Multimedia content adaption strategies are becoming increasingly important for effective video streaming over the actual heterogeneous networks. Thus, evaluation frameworks for adaptive video play an important role in the designing and deploying process of adaptive multimedia streaming systems. This paper describes a novel simulation framework for rate-adaptive video transmission using the scalable video coding standard (H.264/SVC). Our approach uses feedback information about the available bandwidth to allow the video source to select the most suitable combination of SVC layers for the transmission of a video sequence. The proposed solution has been integrated into the network simulator NS-2 in order to support realistic network simulations. To demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed solution we perform a simulation study where a video sequence was transmitted over a three network scenarios. The experimental results show that the Adaptive SVC scheme implemented in our framework provides an efficient alternative that helps to avoid an increase in the network congestion in resource-constrained networks. Improvements in video quality, in terms of PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) and SSIM (Structural Similarity Index) are also obtained.
This paper proposes the concept of perceptual pruning to improve the scalability of immersive video conferencing (IVC) systems. The aim of perceptual pruning is to enable servers to dynamically reduce the bit rate of ...
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This paper proposes the concept of perceptual pruning to improve the scalability of immersive video conferencing (IVC) systems. The aim of perceptual pruning is to enable servers to dynamically reduce the bit rate of videos on-the-fly in response to changes in virtual distance and orientation of videos with respect to the receiving client. It is shown that the video of each participant will have to undergo varying degrees of texture to pixel mapping before it is rendered by the client. By reducing the resolution of the video at the scale of each transform block in response to nuances of this mapping, the video bit rate could be reduced without any noticeable degradation of quality. This paper presents the results of experimental tests and also real-world scalability tests to quantify the impact of perceptual pruning. It is concluded that perceptual pruning will be of significant benefit, especially in those situations when the number of videos in the client's viewpoint is large.
We propose an algorithm that exploits the properties of scalable video coding (SVC) in order to minimize the upload bandwidth at each peer. More specifically, we propose streaming different layers of the same video fr...
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We propose an algorithm that exploits the properties of scalable video coding (SVC) in order to minimize the upload bandwidth at each peer. More specifically, we propose streaming different layers of the same video from different peers. The paper defines an optimization problem to handle the upload bandwidth at each peer. However, the solution to the proposed problem is NP complete. Therefore, we propose an approximation algorithm to solve this problem. In addition, seed servers are introduced in order to deal with extra load in the network. The proposed method provides better performance as compared to the current approaches that use single layer video in combination with SVC. We have compared our simulation results with the model proposed in Shabnam and Mohamed (2010). The simulation results show that the proposed model improves diversity, increases average video quality, reduces the effect of churn and manages flash crowds.
Sharing live multimedia content is becoming increasingly popular among mobile users. In this article, we study the problem of optimizing video quality in such a scenario using scalable video coding (SVC) and chunked v...
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Sharing live multimedia content is becoming increasingly popular among mobile users. In this article, we study the problem of optimizing video quality in such a scenario using scalable video coding (SVC) and chunked video content. We consider using only standard stateless HTTP servers that do not need to perform additional processing of the video content. Our key contribution is to provide close to optimal algorithms for scheduling video chunk upload for multiple clients having different viewing delays. Given such a set of clients, the problem is to decide which chunks to upload and in which order to upload them so that the quality-delay tradeoff can be optimally balanced. We show by means of simulations that the proposed algorithms can achieve notably better performance than naive solutions in practical cases. Especially the heuristic-based greedy algorithm is a good candidate for deployment on mobile devices because it is not computationally intensive but it still delivers in most cases on-par video quality compared to the more complex local optimization algorithm. We also show that using shorter video segments and being able to predict bandwidth and video chunk properties improve the delivered video quality in certain cases.
We study the problem of broadcasting scalablevideo coded (SVC) streams in cellular networks, where all user equipments (UEs) require the same video content and cooperate with each other. To take the advantage of chan...
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We study the problem of broadcasting scalablevideo coded (SVC) streams in cellular networks, where all user equipments (UEs) require the same video content and cooperate with each other. To take the advantage of channel diversity gains, the base station (BS) uses network coding to generate linear combinations of video packets for broadcasting in the downlink. Once receiving sufficient number of the combinations, a UE can relay packets to others via device-to-device (D2D) connections. The optimal downlink and D2D transmission arrangement problem is formulated as a mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problem, which becomes difficult to solve when the number of UEs increases. Then we convert the MINLP problem to a quasi-convex optimization problem using a continuous step function, and a primal-dual decomposition approach is used to solve it in a distributed way. In addition, we consider the influence of the transmission energy consumption to the optimal solution. Simulation results show that the proposed approach achieves near-optimal performance. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
An improved rate control algorithm, designed for scalablevideo coders incorporating interlayer prediction, is proposed. Firstly, a Rate Distortion (RD) model for interlayer prediction involving the spatial enhancemen...
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An improved rate control algorithm, designed for scalablevideo coders incorporating interlayer prediction, is proposed. Firstly, a Rate Distortion (RD) model for interlayer prediction involving the spatial enhancement layers is devised. An optimised Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) prediction model for the spatial enhancement layers that considers both the MAD from the spatial base layer in the same frame and the MAD from the corresponding macroblock in previous frames is also proposed. Simulation results show that the resulting algorithm produces accurate rate control with an average bit rate error of less than 0.26%. Compared with the JVT-W043 default rate control algorithm of the JSVM, the proposed algorithm improves the average PSNR by up to 0.53 dB or reduces the bit rate by an average of 10.95%. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can be combined with the existing rate control scheme for H.264/AVC, resulting in further improvements. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
In this paper we propose a multipath video streaming mechanism based on the scalable video coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC. Our method adapts to the heterogeneous capabilities of different end-users. Additionally,...
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scalable video coding is an H.264/AVC scalable extension that is used to provide various network-friendly scalability using a single bit stream. In SVC, the newly adapted predictive coding techniques can achieve high ...
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scalable video coding is an H.264/AVC scalable extension that is used to provide various network-friendly scalability using a single bit stream. In SVC, the newly adapted predictive coding techniques can achieve high encoding efficiency, but they increase the computational complexity. To reduce the computational complexity, we present a fast mode decision algorithm based on the block complexity function considering the degree of correlation between base layer and enhancement layer. The simulation results show that the encoding time of the proposed fast mode decision algorithm for the combined scalability is about 54.72% compared with normal method although the loss of visual quality is negligible(1).
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