面向移动的视频编码标准AVS-M

对AVS-M标准技术要点作了全面介绍,并与其他视频编码标准进行了性能比较.AVS-M的目标是在移动网络环境下,提供高压缩、高差错恢复、低复杂度和网络界面友好操作方便等性能,特别在降低复杂度和提高容错能力上有了很大的改进.     

Encoder adaptable difference detection for low power video compression in surveillance system

As a state-of-the-art video compression technique, H.264/AVC has been deployed in many surveillance cameras to improve the compression efficiency. However, it induces very high coding complexity, and thus high power consumption. In this paper, a difference detection algorithm is proposed to reduce the computational complexity and power consumption in surveillance video compression by automatically distributing the video data to different modules of the video encoder according to their content similarity features. Without any requirement in changing the encoder hardware, the proposed algorithm provides high adaptability to be integrated into the existing H.264 video encoders. An average of over 82% of overall encoding complexity can be reduced regardless of whether or not the H.264 encoder itself has employed fast algorithms. No loss is observed in both subjective and objective video quality.     

运动补偿视频编码的一种非DCT编码方法

本文提出一种新的空间域帧间编码方法－预测信号梯度控制的四叉树编码,模拟实验表明,这种编码方法的效率已经与ＤＣＴ相当,并稍有超出,而其算法比较简单。     

视频流传输中的差错复原视频编码技术

视频压缩技术在采用预测技术、变换编码技术和可变长熵编码技术以减少冗余信息的同时,也降低了视频流的容错能力.传输信道中的差错,不仅严重损害了视频服务质量,甚至会使通信系统崩溃,因此,在有错信道上进行视频传输,差错复原视频编码技术就显得尤为重要.对差错复原视频编码技术进行了概括和总结,首先指出在视频传输过程中存在的由于传输错误而引发的比特流同步丢失及错误蔓延问题,然后研究了解决这些问题的差错复原视频编码方法,最后指出:可伸缩视频编码和多描述视频编码是差错复原视频编码的发展方向;多描述编码同多路径技术相结合,能显著提高压缩视频信号的错误恢复能力和传输信道的性能.     

视频转码技术回顾

随着各种视频压缩标准的制定及计算机硬件、网络技术的发展，视频信息的应用呈现出爆炸式的增长。为了适应用户终端的多样性及网络自身的传输特性，20世纪90年代后期，视频转码成为视频编码领域一个新的研究热点。本文从视频转码的应用、体系结构和关键技术三个方面，回顾近几年来在视频转码方面的研究进展。     

MPEG-4 video verification model: A video encoding/decoding algorithm based on content representation

MPEG-4 video aims at providing standardized core technologies allowing efficient storage, transmission and manipulation of video data in multimedia environments. This is a challenging task given the broad spectrum of requirements and applications in multimedia. In order to achieve this broad goal, rather than a solution for a narrow set of applications, functionalities common to clusters of applications are under consideration. Therefore, video group activities in MPEG-4 aim at providing solutions in the form of tools and algorithms enabling functionalities such as efficient compression, object scalability, spatial and temporal scalability, and error resilience. The standardized MPEG-4 video will provide a toolbox containing tools and algorithms bringing solutions to the above-mentioned functionalities and more.

The current focus of the MPEG-4 video group is the development of the Video Verification Models. A Verification Model (VM) is a common platform with a precise definition of encoding and decoding algorithms which can be presented as tools addressing specific functionalities. It evolves through time by means of core experiments. New algorithms/tools are added to the VM and old algorithms/tools are replaced in the VM by successful core experiments. Until October 1996, the MPEG-4 video group has focused its efforts on a single VM which has gradually evolved from version 1.0 to version 4.0, and in the process has addressed increasing number of desired functionalities, namely, content based object and temporal scalabilities, spatial scalability, error resilience, and compression efficiency.

This paper gives an overview of version 4.0 of the Video VM in MPEG-4. In doing so, issues, algorithms, and majors tools used in the development of this future video standard are discussed.     

分布式视频编码技术研究

建立在Slepian-Wolf和Wyner-Ziv编码理论基础上的分布式视频编码是一种全新的编码框架。与传统视频编码方案相比,其突出的特点决定它可为未来无线视频信号编码与传输提供具有极大竞争力的解决方案。首先详细介绍了分布式视频编码的理论基础和特点,然后讨论了分布式视频编码的关键技术,最后给出了今后的研究方向。     

A layered coding system for very low bit rate video coding

Known coding techniques for transmitting moving images at very low bit rates are explained by the source models on which these coding techniques are based. It is shown that with motion-compensated hybrid coding, object-based analysis-synthesis coding, knowledge-based coding and semantic coding, there is a consistent development of source models. In consequence these coding techniques can be combined in a layered coding system. From experimental results obtained for object-based analysis-synthesis, coding estimates for the coding efficiency of such a layered coding system are derived using head and shoulder video telephone test sequences. It is shown that an additional compression factor of about 3 can be expected with such a complex layered coding system, when compared to block-based hybrid coding.     

Cognitive radio assisted quality compensation for scalable video multicast in cellular networks

Existing multicast schemes always employ the scalable video coding (SVC) to accommodate heterogeneous channel conditions. Although this method achieves a high spectral efficiency, it will lead to serious quality imbalance problem, i.e., the viewers who hold a better link conditions can obtain high video quality, but the viewers with bad reception conditions can only receive the video with poor quality. In this paper, we propose a novel Cognitive Radio Assisted Quality Compensation (CRAQC) scheme for enhancing the video quality of bad reception viewers. In CRAQC, the bad reception viewers can obtain from the good reception viewers the video content they cannot receive directly from the base station using cognitive relay links. One novel and promising design of the proposed scheme is that it considers a cooperative transmission style in relay process, in which viewers with the same relay content can simultaneously broadcast this content in the same channel, and therefore achieve the benefits of space diversity to the receiver. Through extensive simulations, we demonstrate that CRAQC is able to significantly improve the video performance of the bad reception viewers.     

A Modified Block Matching Motion Estimation Algorithm for the Very Low Bit-Rate video Coding

1IntroductionMohonestimationplaysanimportantroleindigitalvideocompression.Block-matchingtechniquehasbeenadoptedinmanyvideocompressionstandardssuchasH.261,MPEG-l,MPEG-2andH.263.Eventhoughthealgorithmtoestimatethemotionvectorsisnotspecifiedexplicitly.However,despiteitssuccessfulapplications,itproducesarathernoisyinchonfield.Inverylowbit-ratevideocodingapplications,theamountofthesideinformationfortheinchonfieldrepresentsanimPOrtantportionofthetotalbit-rate.Therefore,motionestimatetechniques…     

基于AVS的帧场自适应编码算法研究

介绍了中国音视频编码技术标准AVS中的帧内预测和基于宏块的帧场自适应编码技术.通过分析其中的5种帧内预测模式的空间分布特点,提出了一种新的隔行视频帧内预测模式.实验表明该模式可以在标清、高清隔行视频的帧内预测上获得平均0.24 dB以上的信噪比增益,平均减少3.1%的码流,是一种有效提高编码效率的预测模式.     

DVB中视频编码器的设计

随着计算机技术和集成电路技术的飞速发展，数字电视取代模拟电视成为电视技术发展的必然，而视频压缩编码又是其中的关键。文中首先介绍了ＩＢＭ公司推出的ＭＰＥＧ－２编码芯片组，然后给出了一个利用该芯片组实现ＭＰＥＧ－２ＭＰ＠ＭＬ编码器的方案。     

面向对象视频编码模型

目前 ,面向对象的视频编码已成为研究热点。MPEG - 4,MPEG - 7等标准的提出促进了面向对象编码技术的发展 ,同时也使得基于内容的视频检索的应用成为可能。对面向对象的视频编码技术进行深入探讨。在面向对象的视频编码标准中 ,视频序列中的图像被表示为视频对象的集合 ,这样不仅可以提高编码效率 ,同时可以支持面向对象编码和实现基于内容的应用 ,还能帮助提取语义视频对象     

Scalable Interframe Wavelet Coding with Low Complex Spatial Wavelet Transform

In the decoding process associated with interframe wavelet coding, the inverse wavelet transform requires high computational complexity. However, as video technology starts to pervade all aspects of our lives, decoders are becoming required in various devices such as PDAs, notebooks, PCs, and set‐top boxes. Therefore, a decoder's complexity needs to be adapted to the processor's computational power, and consequently a low‐complexity codec is also required for scalable video coding. In this paper, we propose a method of controlling and lowering the complexity of the spatial wavelet transform while sustaining the same coding efficiency as that currently afforded. In addition, the proposed method may alleviate the ringing effect for slowly changing image sequences.     

Systematic analysis of the decoding delay in multiview video

We present a framework for the analysis of the decoding delay in multiview video coding (MVC). We show that in real-time applications, an accurate estimation of the decoding delay is essential to achieve a minimum communication latency. As opposed to single-view codecs, the complexity of the multiview prediction structure and the parallel decoding of several views requires a systematic analysis of this decoding delay, which we solve using graph theory and a model of the decoder hardware architecture. Our framework assumes a decoder implementation in general purpose multi-core processors with multi-threading capabilities. For this hardware model, we show that frame processing times depend on the computational load of the decoder and we provide an iterative algorithm to compute jointly frame processing times and decoding delay. Finally, we show that decoding delay analysis can be applied to design decoders with the objective of minimizing the communication latency of the MVC system.     

STi3220在视频压缩编码中的应用

介绍运动估值专用芯片ＳＴｉ３２２０的工作原理，分析了利用ＳＴｉ３３２０实现实时运动估值时所需要的视频数据控制方法，并讨论了适用于ＭＧＥＧ１的运动估值实现方案。     

Efficient reconstruction scheme for transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding

To minimize the errors of the reconstructed values and improve the quality of decoded image,an efficient reconstruction scheme for transform domain Wyner-Ziv (WZ) video coding is proposed.The reconstruction scheme exploits temporal correlation of the coefficient bands,the WZ decoded bits stream and the side information efficiently.When side information is outside the decoded quantization bin,the reconstructed value is derived using expectation of the WZ decoded bit stream and the side information.When side information is within the decoded quantization bin,the reconstructed value is derived using the biased predictor.Simulation results show that the proposed reconstruction scheme gains up to 1.32 dB compared with the commonly used boundary reconstruction scheme at the same bit rates and similar computation cost.