IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals
Low-Complexity Hybrid-Domain H.264/SVC to H.264/AVC Spatial Transcoding with Drift Compensation for Videoconferencing
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As an extension of H.264/AVC, Scalable Video Coding (SVC) provides the ability to adapt to heterogeneous networks and user-end requirements, which offers great scalability in multi-point applications such as videoconferencing. However, transcoding between SVC and AVC becomes necessary due to the existence of legacy AVC-based systems. The straightforward full re-encoding method requires great computational cost, and the fast SVC-to-AVC spatial transcoding techniques have not been thoroughly investigated yet. This paper proposes a low-complexity hybrid-domain SVC-to-AVC spatial transcoder with drift compensation, which provides even better coding efficiency than the full re-encoding method. The macroblocks (MBs) of input SVC bitstream are divided into two types, and each type is suitable for pixel- or transform-domain processing respectively. In the pixel-domain transcoding, a fast re-encoding method is proposed based on mode mapping and motion vector (MV) refinement. In the transform-domain transcoding, the quantized transform coefficients together with other motion data are reused directly to avoid re-quantization loss. The drift problem caused by proposed transcoder is solved by compensation techniques for I frame and P frame respectively. Simulation results show that proposed transcoder achieves averagely 96.4% time reduction compared with the full re-encoding method, and outperforms the reference methods in coding efficiency.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E96-A No.11 pp.2142-2153
- Publication Date
- 2013/11/01
- Publicized
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1337
- DOI
- 10.1587/transfun.E96.A.2142
- Type of Manuscript
- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems)
- Category
- Image Processing
Authors
Lei SUN
Waseda University
Zhenyu LIU
Tsinghua University
Takeshi IKENAGA
Waseda University
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Lei SUN, Zhenyu LIU, Takeshi IKENAGA, "Low-Complexity Hybrid-Domain H.264/SVC to H.264/AVC Spatial Transcoding with Drift Compensation for Videoconferencing" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals,
vol. E96-A, no. 11, pp. 2142-2153, November 2013, doi: 10.1587/transfun.E96.A.2142.
Abstract: As an extension of H.264/AVC, Scalable Video Coding (SVC) provides the ability to adapt to heterogeneous networks and user-end requirements, which offers great scalability in multi-point applications such as videoconferencing. However, transcoding between SVC and AVC becomes necessary due to the existence of legacy AVC-based systems. The straightforward full re-encoding method requires great computational cost, and the fast SVC-to-AVC spatial transcoding techniques have not been thoroughly investigated yet. This paper proposes a low-complexity hybrid-domain SVC-to-AVC spatial transcoder with drift compensation, which provides even better coding efficiency than the full re-encoding method. The macroblocks (MBs) of input SVC bitstream are divided into two types, and each type is suitable for pixel- or transform-domain processing respectively. In the pixel-domain transcoding, a fast re-encoding method is proposed based on mode mapping and motion vector (MV) refinement. In the transform-domain transcoding, the quantized transform coefficients together with other motion data are reused directly to avoid re-quantization loss. The drift problem caused by proposed transcoder is solved by compensation techniques for I frame and P frame respectively. Simulation results show that proposed transcoder achieves averagely 96.4% time reduction compared with the full re-encoding method, and outperforms the reference methods in coding efficiency.
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