Low-complexity and high-quality frame-skipping transcoder for continuous presence multipoint video conferencing

2003-2004 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishe

Dynamic region of interest transcoding for multipoint video conferencing

This paper presents a region of interest transcoding scheme for multipoint video conferencing to enhance the visual quality. In a multipoint videoconference, usually there are only one or two active conferees at one time which are the regions of interest to the other conferees involved. We propose a Dynamic Sub-Window Skipping (DSWS) scheme to firstly identify the active participants from the multiple incoming encoded video streams by calculating the motion activity of each sub-window, and secondly reduce the frame-rates of the motion inactive participants by skipping these less-important subwindows. The bits saved by the skipping operation are reallocated to the active sub-windows to enhance the regions of interest. We also propose a low-complexity scheme to compose and trace the unavailable motion vectors with a good accuracy in the dropped inactive sub-windows after performing the DSWS. Simulation results show that the proposed methods not only significantly improve the visual quality on the active subwindows without introducing serious visual quality degradation in the inactive ones, but also reduce the computational complexity and avoid whole-frame skipping. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is fully compatible with the H.263 video coding standard. 1

New architecture for dynamic frame-skipping transcoder

2002-2003 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishe

Temporal Video Transcoding in Mobile Systems

La tesi analizza il problema della transcodifica temporale per la trasmissione del video in tempo reale su reti mobili. Viene proposta un’architettura di transcodifica temporale e un nuovo algoritmo di ricalcolo dei vettori di moto per il transcoder temporale H.264. Per fronteggiare il problema della riduzione costante della banda del canale wireless nelle reti infrastrutturate, vengono proposte diverse politiche di frame skipping basate sul dimensionamento del buffer del transcoder per garantire una comunicazione in tempo reale. Il moto di un frame e il numero di frames consecutivi scartati vengono inoltre considerati per migliorare la qualità del video transcodificato. E’ stato inoltre proposto e studiato un sistema di trasmissione video per reti veicolari con protocollo IEEE 802.11, basato su transcodifica temporale. Questo sistema permette di scartare quei frames il cui tempo di trasmissione supera un massimo ritardo ammisssibile al di sopra del quale tali frames non verrebbero comunque visualizzati. Il sistema proposto permette un notevole risparmio di banda e migliora la qualità del video evitando che molti frames consecutivi vengano scartati a causa della congestione

DCT-based video downscaling transcoder using split and merge technique

2005-2006 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishe

On transcoding a B-frame to a P-frame in the compressed domain

2007-2008 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishe

Diversity and importance measures for video downscaling

2004-2005 > Academic research: refereed > Refereed conference paperVersion of RecordPublishe

Region-based object tracking for multipoint video conferencing using wavelet transform

2000-2001 > Academic research: refereed > Refereed conference paperVersion of RecordPublishe