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Interactive photo-realistic graphics can be rendered by using light field datasets. One way of capturing the dataset is by using light field cameras with microlens arrays. The captured images contain repetitive patterns resulted from adjacent mi-crolenses. These images don't resemble the appearance of a natural scene. This dissimilarity leads to problems in light field image compression by using traditional...
We propose a selective encryption scheme for HEVC which allows for transparent encryption in a wide range of quantization parameters. Our approach focusses on the AC coefficient signs, since they can be altered directly in the bit stream without entropy reencoding. This allows for fast encryption and decryption while retaining full format-compliance and length-preservation. Furthermore, we show our...
Heterogeneous platforms integrating several CPU cores and GPU accelerators have established in several application domains, from desktop, server and mobile. To take full advantage of such platforms, video encoders/decoders have to exploit a broader design space, by cooperatively executing in all the available CPU and GPU cores. To attain such objective, three novel contributions that aim the exploitation...
In this paper, we propose a new rate control scheme designed for the newest high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard, and aimed at enhancing the quality of regions of interest (ROI). Our approach allocates a higher bit rate to the region of interest while keeping the global bit rate close to the assigned target value. This algorithm is developed for a videoconferencing system, where the ROIs (typically,...
Non-camera captured images (also known as compound image) contain a mixture of camera-captured natural images and computer-generated graphics and texts. Nowadays, there are more and more applications calling for non-camera captured image/video compression scheme. However, current video coding standards, which are designed for natural video, treat non-camera captured video less carefully. For example,...
In this paper, we propose a hybrid parallel decoding strategy for HEVC which combines task-level parallelism and datalevel parallelism based on CTUs. The data-level parallelism makes the execution time distribution of different decoding stages more balanced, and makes the task-level parallelism more efficient. Our approach imposes no constraint on bit streams that they shall be generated by optional...
To achieve higher coding efficiency, the latest video coding standard called High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) has adopted the mechanism of Advanced Motion Vector Prediction (AMVP) to further improve the accuracy of motion vector predictor. However, the adoption of AMVP significantly increases the hardware realization overhead as well as the data access bandwidth requirements. In addition, the dependency...
High Dynamic Range (HDR) images contain more intensity levels than traditional image formats. Instead of 8 or 10 bit integers, floating point values are generally used to represent the pixel data. To extend the use of existing video codecs such as HEVC to HDR floating point video sequences, we propose a method that converts the floating point data and reduces the bit depth of input images with minimal...
The coding efficiency of the new video coding standard, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is strongly associated with better use of spatio-temporal redundancies thanks to an increased number of competing coding modes. However, this competition involves a massive increase in signaling bitrate which becomes a possible limit for the next generation of encoder. This paper proposesa new coding scheme...
The scalable high efficiency video coding (SHVC) standard aims to provide features of temporal, spatial and quality scalability. In this paper we investigate a pipeline and parallel software architecture for the SHVC decoder. The proposed architecture is based on the OpenHEVC software which implements the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) decoder. The architecture of the SHVC decoder enables two...
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