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High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the latest video coding standard, in which coding performance improvement of intra prediction comes from flexible block partitioning and advanced directional prediction. Blocks with strong directionality and regular patterns can be handled well by this finer granular directional prediction. However, irregular patterns and noises often exist in natural videos,...
In this paper, we address the problem of the statistical multiplexing of video streams. Dynamic bitrate allocation is used to improve the overall video quality of a pool of channels. The balance is obtained by providing more bits to complex channels, while deprivations are applied to non-complex ones. In this study, the error minimization optimization of several compressed video is considered along...
Conventionally, complex motion in video sequences is approximated by smaller block units in order to be representable by a translational motion model. This approximation results in a fine block partitioning and a high prediction error, both at cost of more data rate than potentially necessary. A worthwhile data reduction has been shown to be achievable by adding a higher order motion model to the...
This paper proposes a history-based tiling algorithm aiming at the increase of speedup when using Tiles. The algorithm is composed of two independent steps that use workload history information to define the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the Tiles. The workload distribution of previous frames are used as reference to perform the tiling of the current frame exploiting the temporal similarity...
The current state-of-art video coding standard, the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), brings many innovations as a way to improve the coding performance. However, the improvement on performance also brought higher computational effort and energy consumption. Since most of devices that handle digital videos are battery powered, the energy consumption became an important issue that demands efficient...
It is desirable to support efficient lossless coding within video coding standards, which are primarily designed for lossy coding, with as little modification as possible. A simple approach is to skip transform and quantization, and directly entropy code the prediction residual, but this is inefficient for compression. A more efficient and popular approach is to process the residual block with DPCM...
The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard enables meeting new video quality demands such as Ultra High Definition (UHD). Its scalable extension (SHVC) allows encoding simultaneously different versions of a video, organised in layers. Thanks to inter-layer predictions, SHVC provides bit-rate savings over an equivalent HEVC simulcast encoding. Therefore, SHVC seems a promising solution for both...
Segment-based temporal prediction combined with higher-order motion models have been studied as an alternative to conventional block-based translational inter prediction. One example of such studies is known as motion hints, where an affine motion model has been used. In this paper, we explore the applicability of motion hints with an elastic motion model in generating reference frames for conventionally...
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) achieves themost significant coding efficiency compared with all the existingvideo coding standards. However, the Intra encoding complexityis increased dramatically since the complex recursive searchalgorithm for the coding unit (CU) size decisions. In this paper, afast CU size decision algorithm based on Support Vector Machines(SVM) is proposed to further alleviate...
In pixel-by-pixel spatial prediction methods for lossless intra coding, the prediction is obtained by a weighted sum of neighboring pixels. The proposed prediction approach in this paper uses a weighted sum of three neighbor pixels according to a two-dimensional correlation model. The weights are obtained after a three step optimization procedure. The first two stages are offline procedures where...
This paper presents the results of a subjective evaluation experiment, made to compare different HDR coding technologies, conducted at the recent ITU/ISO/IEC VCEG/ MPEG/JPEG Meeting in San Diego, CA, February 2016. A set of “anchor” streams, conforming to the HDR10 spec, was compared to a similar rate-matched set obtained using a method called “Reshaper”, which requires normative changes to the underlying...
In addition to the texture, multiview video employs the utilization of depth coding for the reconstruction of 3D video and Free viewpoint video. Standing on some texture-depth correlations, a number of methods in literature reuses texture motion vector for the corresponding depth coding to reduce encoding time by avoiding costly motion estimation process. However, texture similarity metric is not...
Given its potential for more realistic rendering and enhanced user experience, High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging is raising a lot of interest both in industry and academia. In this context, efficient representation and coding techniques are needed, as HDR video entails significantly higher raw data rate. In this paper, we present a temporally constrained content-adaptive Tone Mapping Operator (TMO)...
Plenoptic images are one type of light field contents produced by using a combination of a conventional camera and an additional optical component in the form of microlens arrays, which are positioned in front of the image sensor surface. This camera setup can capture a sub-sampling of the light field with high spatial fidelity over a small range, and with a more coarsely sampled angle range. The...
We propose a pseudo-sequence-based scheme for light field image compression. In our scheme, the raw image captured by a light field camera is decomposed into multiple views according to the lenslet array of that camera. These views constitute a pseudo sequence like video, and the redundancy between views is exploited by a video encoder. The specific coding order of views, prediction structure, and...
High Dynamic Range (HDR) image and video technology aims at conveying the full range of perceptible shadow and highlight details with sufficient precision. HDR is regarded by many experts as the next evolution in digital media. However, industrial broadcasters have concerns regarding the bandwidth overhead that this new technology entails. While many consider that broadcasting HDR content would increase...
In the second generation of Audio Video coding Standard(AVS2), the encoder tries all possible depth levels in order to select the best partition pattern for coding unit (CU) and prediction unit (PU). In this paper, we proposed an adaptive fast algorithm based on variance, which can effectually reduce the total encoding time with negligible bitrate increment for AVS2. Our algorithm utilizes the variance...
The latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard significantly improves coding efficiency over H.264/AVC, at the cost of heavy encoding and decoding complexity. For reducing HEVC decoding complexity to a target, we propose in this paper a Subjective-Quality-Optimized Complexity Control (SQOCC) approach, which optimizes subjective quality loss caused by the decoding complexity reduction. First,...
For low bit rate scenarios (video conferencing, aerial surveillance), conventional video coding is unable to meet the small bit rate and high quality requirements. In contrast to that Region of Interest (ROI) coding provides an efficient compression by improving the quality of ROIs at the expense of non-ROIs. We also transmit ROI only, but reconstruct non-ROI from already transmitted content by means...
Low bit rate transmission of HD video captured from UAVs is highly interesting. Assuming a planar surface, areas contained in the current frame but not in the previous frames (New Area) can be reconstructed using Global Motion Compensation (GMC). Aiming at stereo reconstruction from monocular video by using motion parallax, a second view of each image pixel has to be additionally transmitted. Whereas...
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