可伸缩视频流的安全网络编码方案

为了使可伸缩视频流在异构网络中达到分层安全等级的目的,运用随机函数来随机化视频流各层中的部分数据流,并结合网络编码来抵御已知的明文攻击。此外,对网络编码器进行了研究,设计有序随机线性网络编码器用于可伸缩视频的传输,可以用很少的随机化操作来达到可扩展的安全等级,并降低通信开销。分析表明,所提方案可有效增加网络的吞吐率。     

Lagrange multiplier selection in wavelet-based scalable video coding for quality scalability

In this paper, a method for Lagrange multiplier selection is proposed in the context of rate-distortion optimisation for wavelet-based scalable video coding targeting quality scalability. Despite the prevalence of the conventional method for Lagrange multiplier selection in hybrid video coding, the underlying formulation is not applicable to wavelet-based scalable video coding. To address the inherent challenges, a thorough analysis of the rate-distortion models for transform video coding is provided with regard to low and middle-to-high bit-rates, respectively. Based on the analysis, the models are consolidated according to experimental observations and the consolidated rate-distortion models serve as the basis for the derivation of the Lagrange multiplier. Considering the influence of the open-loop prediction structure on the rate-distortion performance, the Lagrange multiplier is initially derived for a single-targeted bit-rate. Moreover, the method for Lagrange multiplier selection in scalable video coding aiming at multiple-targeted bit-rates is proposed in a general sense of bit-rate range, varying from low to high bit-rates, building on the initially derived Lagrange multiplier for a single-targeted bit-rate. The proposed Lagrange multiplier is content adaptive and well suited for wavelet-based scalable video coding where quantisation steps are unavailable. Detailed performance evaluation of the proposed method for wavelet-based scalable video coding is provided with regard to a given targeted bit-rate and multiple-targeted bit-rates, respectively. The experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed Lagrange multiplier for rate-distortion optimisation considering quality scalability in wavelet-based scalable video coding.     

基于OpenFlow的SVC流媒体时延自适应分级传输方法

针对当前互联网流媒体传输的时延敏感性问题,提出一种基于OpenFlow的SVC（scalable video coding,可分级视频编码）流媒体时延自适应分级传输方法,该方法有效结合SVC流媒体可分级和OpenFlow灵活可编程的特性,在网络带宽受限和链路拥塞的复杂网络环境下,通过构建基础层和增强层2个独立路由,实现了动态网络下SVC流媒体分级自适应高效传输。仿真结果表明,该方法在提升SVC流媒体传输效率和质量,改善用户体验方面有重要作用。     

Robust scalable video multi-cast with multiple sources and inter-source network decoding in lossy networks

This paper presents a robust scalable video multi-cast scheme with source diversity and inter-source network decoding in lossy networks. The source diversity technique gives path diversity, providing a better quality of layered video transmission under hostile environments. For each source, an optimization formulation is set up to find the best transmission route of each transmitting video layer. The objectives of the formulation are to maximize the total information values of video layers reflecting the end-to-end video quality and transmission reliability. The source providing the best overall achievable data rate, which is the data rate destination can expect to receive from the transmission, is selected to be the primary source, while the rest will be secondary sources. When the Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees of some transmitting video layers cannot be fulfilled by the primary source, the secondary source with the best QoS parameters is selected to transmit the layers to destinations. The number of secondary sources used for transmissions is increased until the QoS guarantees of all transmitting video layers are satisfied or all network resources are utilized. Network coding is deployed to multi-cast video layers from the same source for efficient resource usage. Network coded data from different sources can be used to decode the transmitting video data. In other words, at each destination, it needs only a sufficient number of video packets from different sources to recover all transmitting video data. Simulations with different network topologies show the improvement in both objective and subjective qualities of layered video multi-cast under lossy environments.     

Motion-compensated DCT temporal filters for efficient spatio-temporal scalable video coding

Although most of the proposals for implementing motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) schemes are based on the wavelet transform, in this paper, we propose an MCTF framework based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). Using DCT decimation and interpolation, several temporal decomposition structures named motion-compensated DCT temporal filters (MCDCT-TF) are introduced. These structures are able to employ filters of any length with particular emphasis on 5/3 DCT and 7/4 DCT. The proposed MCDCT-TF and the two-dimensional (2D) DCT decimation technique are incorporated into H.264/AVC to provide spatio-temporal scalability. Compared with the current MCTF-based lifting schemes such as Haar, and 5/3 wavelet filters, simulation results show that the proposed MCDCT-TF utilizing longer tap DCT filters achieves a significant improvement in coding gain. The impact of odd/even group of frames, the decimation/interpolation ratios, and motion-compensated connectivity on the MCDCT-TF performance are also analyzed. Moreover, simulation results show that the performance of the presented scalable video coding is close to the single layer H.264/AVC and is slightly inferior to the temporal scalability supported in JSVM, the state-of-the-art scalable video coding standard, that gets its gain from Hierarchical B-pictures. However, our spatio-temporal coding scheme outperforms the spatio-temporal supported in JSVM even if it uses hierarchical B-pictures to improve its gain.     

一个基于速率控制的Internet视频流服务方案

由于视频流服务对于网络服务质量有着较高的要求,而现有的Internet所提供的是尽力而为的服务,无法保证数据的实时传输。该文设计了一个用于Internet上视频流的端到端传输方案.整个方案设计的目的是在网络本身缺乏服务质量保证的条件下尽可能达到最好的视频传输质量。根据可用带宽估计和网络信息反馈,系统对发送速率进行调整,并提供两种视频流服务:存储视频和实时视频。仿真结果表明方案的性能良好,能满足Internet视频流的需求。     

适用于实时交通监控的时空可伸缩视频编码方法

提出了一种适用于视频监控的时空可伸缩编码方法。首先提出一种适用于可伸缩视频编码特点的监控算法,利用该算法将运动区域从背景中提取出来,并用模式和方向快速判别算法去掉对编码增益很小的冗余模式,基本层利用该算法进行编码,增强层利用基本层的信息预测可能的模式集合,然后进行零块预先判决,最后对最高时间级的高速运动块通过视觉门限来降低其空间冗余度。实验证明,该方法能够较大地提高编码速度和一定程度上提高压缩率,并且视觉质量损失很小。     

一种低编码复杂度可分级的视频编码系统

在可分级视频编码（SVC,scalable video coding）的框架下,利用分布式视频编码（DVC,distributed video coding）技术,设计了一种低编码复杂度的SVC方案。该系统具有空间可分级的特性,各分层中仅用到了传统的帧内编码技术和DVC技术,最大限度的减小了SVC系统的编码复杂度。在该...     

Effective computation-aware algorithm by inter-layer motion analysis for scalable video coding

Scalable video coding incorporated with computation-aware ability achieves quality as well as being computation scalable. This paper presents a computation-aware algorithm for scalable video coding with spatial/quality scalability aiming for the best trade-off between rate distortion performance and computational consumption. We first observe and analyze and then establish a model for the motion vector difference relationship between the scalable base and enhancement layers. By using the modeling results, a linear algorithm for computation distribution is thus proposed to allocate the computation for each macroblock in the enhancement layer. In addition, the rate distortion costs of the base layer are also taken into account for the computation allocation process in order to further improve the coding performance. The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed computation-aware algorithm not only accomplishes better rate distortion performance than other works under the same computational constraints, but also achieves less computation necessities.     

Evolved data scheduling scheme based on layered P2P streaming in mobile network

To relieve the negative effect brought by the intricate wireless network environment and unstable user behavior in layered mobile peer-to peer(P2P) streaming service,an evolved layered P2P (E-LP2P) dat...     

流媒体传输中的视频编码技术

概述了流媒体广播的系统结构和主要技术,介绍了流媒体中的视频编码技术,主要分析了精细可分级编码(FGSC)和渐进精细可分级编码(PFGSC)两种编码方法的原理与实现。     

Frame distortion estimation for unequal error protection methods in scalable video coding (SVC)

In many multimedia applications, coded video is transmitted over error prone heterogeneous networks. Because of the predictive mechanism used in video coding, transmission error would propagate temporally and spatially and would result in significant quality losses. In order to address this problem, different error resilience methods have been proposed. One of the techniques, which is commonly used in video streaming, is unequal error protection (UEP) of scalable video coding (SVC). In this technique, different independent layers of an SVC stream are protected differently and based on their importance by using forward error correction (FEC) codes. Accurately analyzing the importance or utility of each video part is a critical component and would lead to a better protection and higher quality of the received video. Calculation of the utility is usually based on multiple decoding of sub-bitstreams and is highly computationally complex. In this work, we propose an accurate low complexity utility estimation technique that can be used in different applications. This technique estimates the utility of each network abstraction layer (NAL) by considering the error propagation to future frames. We utilize this method in an UEP framework with the scalable extension of H.264/AVC codec and it achieves almost the same performance as highly complex estimation techniques (an average loss of 0.05 dB). Furthermore, we propose a low delay version of this technique that can be used in delay constrained application. The estimation accuracy and performance of our proposed technique are studied extensively.     

Scalable 3D video streaming over P2P networks with playback length changeable chunk segmentation

3D video distribution over P2P networks has been thought as a promising way for 3D video entering home. The convergence of scalable 3D video coding and P2P streaming can provide diverse 3D experiences for heterogeneous clients with high distribution efficiencies. However, the conventional chunk segmentation and scheduling algorithms originally aiming at the non-scalable 2D video streaming are not very efficient for scalable 3D video streaming over P2P networks due to the particular data characteristics of scalable 3D video. Based on this motivation, this paper first presents a playback length changeable 3D video chunk segmentation (PLC3DCS) algorithm to provide different error resilience strengths to video and depth as well as layers with different importance levels in the 3D video transmission. Then, a hybrid-priority based chunk scheduling (HPS) algorithm is proposed to be tied in with the proposed chunk segmentation algorithm to further promote the overall 3D video P2P streaming performance. The simulation results show that the proposed PLC3DCS algorithm with the corresponding HPS can increase the success delivery rates of chunks with more important levels, and further improve the user’s quality of 3D experience.     

Multiview coding and error correction coding for 3D video over noisy channels

We consider the joint source–channel coding problem of stereo video transmitted over AWGN and flat Rayleigh fading channels. Multiview coding (MVC) is used to encode the source, as well as a type of spatial scalable MVC. Our goal is to minimize the total number of bits, which is the sum of the number of source bits and the number of forward error correction bits, under the constraints that the quality of the left and right views must each be greater than predetermined PSNR thresholds at the receiver. We first consider symmetric coding, for which the quality thresholds are equal. Following binocular suppression theory, we also consider asymmetric coding, for which the quality thresholds are unequal. The optimization problem is solved using both equal error protection (EEP) and a proposed unequal error protection (UEP) scheme. An estimate of the expected end-to-end distortion of the two views is formulated for a packetized MVC bitstream over a noisy channel. The UEP algorithm uses these estimates for packet rate allocation. Results for various scenarios, including non-scalable/scalable MVC, symmetric/asymmetric coding, and UEP/EEP, are provided for both AWGN and flat Rayleigh fading channels. The UEP bit savings compared to EEP are given, and the performances of different scenarios are compared for a set of stereo video sequences.     

3D visual experience oriented cross-layer optimized scalable texture plus depth based 3D video streaming over wireless networks

3D video streaming over the mobile Internet generally incurs the inferior 3D visual experience due to the time-varying characteristics of wireless channel. The conventional video streaming optimization methods generally neglect the harmony among different networking protocol layers. This paper proposes a cross-layer optimized texture plus depth based scalable 3D video streaming method to improve the expected 3D visual experience of the user by systematically considering the application layer texture-video/depth/FEC bit-rate allocation, MAC layer multi-channel allocation, and physical layer modulation and channel coding scheme (MCS) selection. In the cross-layer optimization, a networking-related 3D visual experience model which fuses the overlapped retinal view visual quality and depth sensation with mimicking human vision system is established to predict the 3D visual experience under the specific parameter configurations of different protocol layers. The efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed cross-layer optimized 3D video streaming method has been validated by subjective and objective experimental results.     

一种新的MPEG-4二值形状空域可扩展编码算法

可扩展编码和形状编码技术是MPEG-4视频编码部分的两个关键技术。文章在分析视频图像二值形状信息特点的基础上．提出了一种新的MPEG—4二值形状空域可扩展编码算法。试验结果表明这种算法编解码简单，速度快．码率较小。