Complexity-aware adaptive bit-rate control with dynamic ROI pre-processing for scalable video coding

Dan Grois, Ofer Hadar

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    Abstract

    We present a novel efficient complexity-aware adaptive bitrate control with dynamic Region-of-Interest pre-processing (pre-filtering) for the Scalable Video Coding (SVC), which is an extension of H.264/AVC. According to the proposed approach, we adaptively vary various parameters of the SVC pre-filters, such as standard deviations and a number of filters for the dynamic pre-processing of a transition region between the ROI and background, thereby enabling to dynamically adjust the desired SVC settings. Our adaptive bit-rate control is based on an SVC computational complexity-rate-distortion (C-R-D) analysis, thereby adding a complexity dimension to the conventional Region-of-Interest SVC rate-distortion analysis. As a result, the ROI SVC visual presentation quality is significantly improved, which can be especially useful for various resource-limited devices, such as mobile devices. The performance of the presented adaptive ROI SVC pre-processing scheme is evaluated and tested in detail, further comparing it to the Joint Scalable Video Model reference software (JSVM 9.19) and demonstrating significant improvements both in quality and bit-rate.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationElectronic Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2011
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 7 Nov 2011
    Event2011 12th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2011 - Barcelona, Spain
    Duration: 11 Jul 201115 Jul 2011

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
    ISSN (Print)1945-7871
    ISSN (Electronic)1945-788X

    Conference

    Conference2011 12th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2011
    Country/TerritorySpain
    CityBarcelona
    Period11/07/1115/07/11

    Keywords

    • H.264/AVC
    • Regions-of-interest scalability
    • Regions-of-interest video coding
    • Scalable Video Coding
    • bit-rate control
    • high-quality visual presentation
    • image/video coding
    • pre-processing/pre-filtering

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Computer Science Applications

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