基于边信息的分布式视频压缩感知的残差重构

压缩感知(Compressed Sensing,CS)结合了视频信号的变换和信息压缩过程,为简化编码算法提供了一种新的解决思路.把分布式视频编码(DVC)和CS结合在一起,构建简单的视频编码框架,并利用原始视频帧与边信息之间的相关性进行残差重构,提出了一种基于边信息的分布式视频压缩感知编解码方案.此方法对关键帧采用传统的帧内编、解码;对非关键帧CS进行随机观测提取观测向量,解码端利用优化的边信息和传输的CS观测向量进行联合重构.实验结果表明,该方法在运动较平滑的序列中比参考方案的恢复质量提高了4 ～6 dB.     

一种空间域Wyner-Ziv视频编码系统的性能改进算法

分布式视频编码是建立在Slepian-Wolf和Wyner-Ziv信息编码理论基础上的全新视频编码框架,具有编码复杂度低,编码效率较高,抗误码性能好的特点.本文首先简单介绍了一种典型的分布式视频编码实现方案——空间域Wyner-Ziv视频编码,随后提出一种空间域Wyner-Ziv视频编码系统的性能改进算法,该算法在不增加编码复杂度的基础上,在解码端利用双向运动估计预测获取更高质量的边信息,同时采用基于Huber-Markov随机场约束的联合迭代解码算法重建图像.实验结果表明,在相同的输出码流情况下,本文改进算法在解码端重建图像的峰值信噪比与空间域Wyner-Ziv视频编码算法相比平均提高2dB,并且主观效果有所改善.     

分布式压缩视频编码的帧分类重构方法研究

在很多的应用场景中需要具有低复杂度的视频编码器,新兴的分布式视频编码和压缩感知技术正好适用于这些场景中,因而出现了一种新的视频编码方案——分布式压缩视频编码。在现有的一些分布式压缩视频编码方案中,视频帧在编码端是独立编码,在解码端进行联合解码,具体来说就是关键帧独立解码,非关键帧在由关键帧生成的边信息的帮助下进行解码,这就忽略了非关键帧之间的相关性。本文提出一个新的分布式视频编码方案,将非关键帧分为主非关键帧和次非关键帧,主非关键帧利用关键帧生成地边信息进行解码,而次非关键帧先利用相邻的主非关键帧进行观测值预测,然后再利用关键帧生成的边信息进行解码。实验结果表明,在本文提出的框架下,非关键帧的重构质量提高了有2dB~4dB。      

分布式视频编码边信息改进技术

高质量的边信息生成技术是分布式视频编码系统实现高压缩效率的关键所在.提出一种边信息的改进方法,对部分译码的Wyner-Ziv(WZ)帧中运动剧烈的区域进行空域修正,使用相邻关键帧对应块的空间预测值与实际值之间的差值来补偿当前部分译码WZ帧中空间预测的误差.仿真结果表明该方法提升了边信息的质量,进而提高了DVC系统的率失真性能.     

Wyner-Ziv视频编码中无反馈速率控制算法研究

为了避免在分布式视频编码系统中使用反馈信道,提出了一种基于Wyner-Ziv编码的无反馈速率控制算法。首先,利用目标码率和目标帧率进行GOP层码率分配;然后,根据原始图像的帧间相关性动态选择量化因子和量化矩阵来分配每个GOP内关键帧和Wyner-Ziv帧的比特数;接下来,利用系数带级的相关性计算相关噪声模型参数,并选择对应的LDPC校验矩阵,提出Wyner-Ziv帧的无反馈比特面速率控制算法。实验结果表明,在给定目标码率下,所提算法的编码码率误差小于0.57%,且与现有无反馈速率控制算法相比,解码恢复图像的PSNR(峰值信噪比)可以提高1dB。另外,该算法基本没有增加编码端复杂度,可用于实际分布式视频通信系统。     

泛在网络中基于压缩感知的Wyner-Ziv空域可分级视频编码

提出一种适用于泛在网络中的基于压缩感知的Wyner-Ziv空域可分级视频编码.在编码端,基本层和增强层之间独立编码,基本层编码器将视频信号下采样,然后进行H.264视频编码,增强层编码器采用自适应的压缩感知测量、量化和熵编码.在解码端,利用时域稀疏模型,基本层和增强层联合进行压缩感知重建.理论分析和实验结果表明,所提编码算法能够灵活地调整输出码流,具有较好的率失真性能和传输的顽健性.     

基于朴素贝叶斯分类的DVC-HEVC快速转码

分布式视频编码(DVC)与传统视频编码之间的转码为移动终端设备之间的低功耗视频通信提供了一种有效的实现思路。以DVC与HEVC转码为研究对象,利用DVC解码端信息,针对高效视频编码(HEVC)中复杂度极高的编码单元(CU)划分过程进行复杂度优化研究。在DVC解码端提取与CU划分相关的纹理复杂度、运动矢量及预测残差3种特征信息;在HEVC编码端基于朴素贝叶斯原理建立CU快速划分模型,模型生成后便可以通过输入特征信息对当前CU划分进行快速决策,避免大量率失真(RD)代价计算过程。实验结果表明,本方案在编码比特率略有上升的情况下大幅缩短了HEVC编码时间,平均下降幅度达到58.26%,且几乎不影响视频质量。     

无反馈分布式视频编码中Wyner-Ziv帧的顽健重构算法

在无反馈分布式视频编码系统中,提出了一种Wyner-Ziv帧的顽健重构算法。针对比特面解码错误带来的视频质量下降问题,对DC系数和AC系数使用不同重构方法,特别是对于解码失败的DC系数量化值,利用编码端原始图像的相关信息自适应地调整边信息量化值和解码失败量化值对重构的贡献,从而完成重构。实验结果表明,与最小均方误差重构算法相比,该算法可以有效提高解码视频的平均PSNR(peak signal-to-noise ratio),且解码视频图像的主观质量有明显改善。     

基于多假设运动补偿去噪的迭代边信息改进算法

在分布式视频压缩系统中,边信息的质量对编码效率有至关重要的作用。利用已解码图像信息提高边信息质量是近年来研究的热点之一。根据边信息和已解码信息与原始信息之间的噪声关系,该文提出了一种基于多假设运动补偿去噪的迭代边信息改进算法。首先对原始边信息进行多假设运动补偿去噪,生成质量更好而不仅是相似的补偿图像,然后利用每个码平面的解码信息对边信息进行迭代改进。实验结果表明,该算法能减少码流,显著提高Wyner-Ziv (WZ)帧质量,从而有效的改善分布式视频压缩的率失真性能。     

分布视频编码中基于帧间相关性的自适应关键帧选取算法

针对分布式视频编码(DVC)系统中固定周期关键帧选取(PKFS)方法忽视了帧间相关性的缺陷,提出了一种自适应关键帧选取(AKFS)算法。利用图像特征点检测与匹配的方法,将相邻图像的非匹配点作为帧间相关性的近似,把累积或平均非匹配点数超过阈值的帧判定为关键帧。在此基础上,提出改进的帧内插方案,以适应不同长度序列组的边信息生成;将零运动强度的关联帧合并为一帧图像参与编解码,进一步提高了系统的压缩效率。实验结果表明,对于不同运动特性的序列,本文提出的算法可以明显提升边信息帧的重建质量,使系统的率失真性能提高0.9～2.0 dB,并有效降低了编码传输码率。     

Distributed Video Coding

Distributed coding is a new paradigm for video compression, based on Slepian and Wolf's and Wyner and Ziv's information-theoretic results from the 1970s. This paper reviews the recent development of practical distributed video coding schemes. Wyner-Ziv coding, i.e., lossy compression with receiver side information, enables low-complexity video encoding where the bulk of the computation is shifted to the decoder. Since the interframe dependence of the video sequence is exploited only at the decoder, an intraframe encoder can be combined with an interframe decoder. The rate-distortion performance is superior to conventional intraframe coding, but there is still a gap relative to conventional motion-compensated interframe coding. Wyner-Ziv coding is naturally robust against transmission errors and can be used for joint source-channel coding. A Wyner-Ziv MPEG encoder that protects the video waveform rather than the compressed bit stream achieves graceful degradation under deteriorating channel conditions without a layered signal representation.     

Cross-band noise model refinement for transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new video coding paradigm, which mainly exploits the source statistics at the decoder based on the availability of decoder side information. One approach to DVC is feedback channel based Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv (TDWZ) video coding. The efficiency of current TDWZ video coding trails that of conventional video coding solutions, mainly due to the quality of side information, inaccurate noise modeling and loss in the final coding step. The major goal of this paper is to enhance the accuracy of the noise modeling, which is one of the most important aspects influencing the coding performance of DVC. A TDWZ video decoder with a novel cross-band based adaptive noise model is proposed, and a noise residue refinement scheme is introduced to successively update the estimated noise residue for noise modeling after each bit-plane. Experimental results show that the proposed noise model and noise residue refinement scheme can improve the rate-distortion (RD) performance of TDWZ video coding significantly. The quality of the side information modeling is also evaluated by a measure of the ideal code length.     

A fast mode decision algorithm applied in medium-grain quality scalable video coding

To increase the flexibility of bit stream adaptation in the H.264/Scalable Video Coding, Medium-Grain Scalable Video Coding (MGS), a variation of Coarse-Grain Scalable Video Coding (CGS), is included. The encoding structure of MGS is significantly different from that of CGS, and the encoding procedure of MGS is very complex. It is important to reduce encoding complexity without sacrificing MGS coding performance. In this paper, a fast mode decision algorithm is proposed for the enhancement layer of MGS based on its specific coding structure. First, the candidate modes and the coding sequence of the current macro-block (MB) are predicted based on mode correlations and correlation degrees. Next, early termination strategies, including Direct Mode, inter-layer, layer and spatial, and spatial-only, are proposed based on the coding structure of MGS and correlations. Finally, MBs are encoded in the order predicted with the four proposed early termination strategies to improve the coding speed. Experimental results show that the algorithm can achieve an average time saving of up to 85.44% with strong robustness and negligible loss in coding efficiency.     

网内编码：无线视频传感网中分布式编码速率控制机制

Wyner-Ziv Video Coding (WZVC) is considered as a promising video coding scheme for Wireless Video Sensor Networks (WVSNs) due to its high compression efficiency and error resilience functionalities, as well as its low encoding complexity. To achieve a good Rate-Distortion (R-D) performance, the current WZVC paradigms usually adopt an end-to-end rate control scheme in which the decoder repeatedly requests the additional decoding data from the encoder for decoding Wyner-Ziv frames. Therefore, the waiting time of the additional decoding data is especially long in multihop WVSNs. In this paper, we propose a novel progressive in-network rate control scheme for WZVC. The proposed in-network puncturing-based rate control scheme transfers the partial channel codes puncturing task from the encoder to the relay nodes. Then, the decoder can request the additional decoding data from the relay nodes instead of the encoder, and the total waiting time for decoding Wyner-Ziv frames is reduced consequently. Simulation results validate the proposed rate control scheme.     

Multiple side information streams for distributed video coding

An improved Wyner-Ziv decoder for distributed video coding (DVC) is proposed, which uses multiple side information streams obtained by using multiple reference frames. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve a significant PSNR gain of up to 2.4 dB over the best available DVC codec at the same bit rate     

Independent key frame coding using correlated pixels in distributed video coding

A novel intra-coding technique is proposed that eliminates the requirement of a secondary coding scheme for coding the key frames in distributed video coding (DVC). The proposed technique uses the Slepian-Wolf theorem and Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding with spatially predicted information to transmit the key-frames to the DVC decoder. Simulation results show that the proposed WZ-intra coding technique (WZ-I) can achieve up to 5 dB PSNR gain compared to MPEG-2 intra coding (MPEG-I) at the same bit rate with negligible computational cost to the encoder     

A Wyner-Ziv Video Coding method utilizing mixture correlation noise model

In Wyner-Ziv (WZ) Distributed Video Coding (DVC), correlation noise model is often used to describe the error distribution between WZ frame and the side information. The accuracy of the model can influence the performance of the video coder directly. A mixture correlation noise model in Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain for WZ video coding is established in this paper. Different correlation noise estimation method is used for direct current and alternating current coefficients. Parameter estimation method based on expectation maximization algorithm is used to estimate the Laplace distribution center of direct current frequency band and Mixture Laplace-Uniform Distribution Model (MLUDM) is established for alternating current coefficients. Experimental results suggest that the proposed mixture correlation noise model can describe the heavy tail and sudden change of the noise accurately at high rate and make significant improvement on the coding efficiency compared with the noise model presented by DIStributed COding for Video sERvices (DISCOVER).