Summary

To enable video transmission over heterogeneous wireless networks, a highly scalable compression and streaming framework that can adapt to large and rapid bandwidth variations in realtime is necessary. MPEG-4 Fine Grained Scalability (FGS) provides fine-grained SNR and temporal scalabilities, but these scalabilities are implemented and performed independently, thereby neglecting the gains that can be made from making joint SNR-temporal decisions to maximize quality. In this paper, a novel Fine Grained SNR-Temporal scalability framework called FGS+ that provides a new level of erformance by considering SNR and temporal scalability jointly is presented. This new solution uses the results of our subjective tests, which indicate the levels to which SNR-quality needs to be enhanced before motion-smoothness should be improved. The study also reveals that these SNRtemporal tradeoff points vary among videos, and depend on the characteristics of the video. Based on these observations, our solution uses reference frames, enhanced relative to FGS, for prediction, improving visual quality over MPEG-4 FGS by up to 1.5 dB.

People

Raj Kumar Rajendran

Professor Mihaela van der Schaar

Professor Shih-Fu Chang

Publication

R. Kumar Rajendran, M. van der Schaar, S.-F. Chang, FGS+: Optimizing the Joint Spatio-Temporal Video Quality in MPEG-4 Fine Grained Scalable Coding, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002), Phoenix, Arizona, May 2002.
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