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Neural Video Compression with Temporal Layer-Adaptive Hierarchical B-frame Coding
Neural video compression (NVC) is a rapidly evolving video coding research
area, with some models achieving superior coding efficiency compared to the
latest video coding standard Versatile Video Coding (VVC). In conventional
video coding standards, the hierarchical B-frame coding, which utilizes a
bidirectional prediction structure for higher compression, had been
well-studied and exploited. In NVC, however, limited research has investigated
the hierarchical B scheme. In this paper, we propose an NVC model exploiting
hierarchical B-frame coding with temporal layer-adaptive optimization. We first
extend an existing unidirectional NVC model to a bidirectional model, which
achieves -21.13% BD-rate gain over the unidirectional baseline model. However,
this model faces challenges when applied to sequences with complex or large
motions, leading to performance degradation. To address this, we introduce
temporal layer-adaptive optimization, incorporating methods such as temporal
layer-adaptive quality scaling (TAQS) and temporal layer-adaptive latent
scaling (TALS). The final model with the proposed methods achieves an
impressive BD-rate gain of -39.86% against the baseline. It also resolves the
challenges in sequences with large or complex motions with up to -49.13% more
BD-rate gains than the simple bidirectional extension. This improvement is
attributed to the allocation of more bits to lower temporal layers, thereby
enhancing overall reconstruction quality with smaller bits. Since our method
has little dependency on a specific NVC model architecture, it can serve as a
general tool for extending unidirectional NVC models to the ones with
hierarchical B-frame coding
Intra-WZ quantization mismatch in distributed video coding
During the past decade, Distributed Video Coding (DVC) has emerged as a new video coding paradigm, shifting the complexity from the encoder-to the decoder-side. This paper addresses a problem of current DVC architectures that has not been studied in the literature so far, that is, the mismatch between the intra and Wyner-Ziv (WZ) quantization processes. Due to this mismatch, WZ rate is spent even for spatial regions that are accurately approximated by the side-information. As a solution, this paper proposes side-information generation using selective unidirectional motion compensation from temporally adjacent WZ frames. Experimental results show that the proposed approach yields promising WZ rate gains of up to 7% relative to the conventional method
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Distributed video coding in wireless multimedia sensor network for multimedia broadcasting
Recently the development of Distributed Video Coding (DVC) has provided the promising theory
support to realize the infrastructure of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN), which composed of autonomous hardware for capturing and transmission of quality audio-visual content. The implementation of DVC in WMSN can better solve the problem of energy constraint of the sensor nodes due to the benefit of lower computational encoder in DVC. In this paper, a practical DVC scheme, pixel-domain Wyner-Ziv(PDWZ) video
coding, with slice structure and adaptive rate selection(ARS) is proposed to solve the certain problems when applying DVC into WMSN. Firstly, the proposed slice structure in PDWZ has extended the feasibility of PDWZ to work with any interleaver size used in Slepian-wolf turbo codec for heterogeneous applications. Meanwhile,
based on the slice structure, an adaptive code rate selection has been proposed aiming at reduce the system delay occurred in feedback request. The simulation results clearly showed the enhancement in R-D performance and perceptual quality. It also can be observed that system delay caused by frequent feedback is greatly reduced, which gives a promising support for WMSN with low latency and facilitates the QoS management
Artifact-Aware Analogue/Mixed-Signal Front-Ends for Neural Recording Applications
This paper presents a brief review of techniques to overcome the problems associated with artifacts in analog frontends for neural recording applications. These techniques are employed for handling Common-Mode (CM) Differential-Mode (DM) artifacts and include techniques such as Average Template Subtraction, Channel Blanking or Blind Adaptive Stimulation Artifact Rejection (ASAR), among others. Additionally, a new technique for DM artifacts compression is proposed. It allows to compress these artifacts to the requirements of the analog frontend and, afterwards, it allows to reconstruct the whole artifact or largely suppress it.Ministerio de EconomĂa y Empresa TEC2016-80923-
Generative Compression
Traditional image and video compression algorithms rely on hand-crafted
encoder/decoder pairs (codecs) that lack adaptability and are agnostic to the
data being compressed. Here we describe the concept of generative compression,
the compression of data using generative models, and suggest that it is a
direction worth pursuing to produce more accurate and visually pleasing
reconstructions at much deeper compression levels for both image and video
data. We also demonstrate that generative compression is orders-of-magnitude
more resilient to bit error rates (e.g. from noisy wireless channels) than
traditional variable-length coding schemes
Introduction to study and simulation of low rate video coding schemes
During this period, the development of simulators for the various HDTV systems proposed to the FCC were developed. These simulators will be tested using test sequences from the MPEG committee. The results will be extrapolated to HDTV video sequences. Currently, the simulator for the compression aspects of the Advanced Digital Television (ADTV) was completed. Other HDTV proposals are at various stages of development. A brief overview of the ADTV system is given. Some coding results obtained using the simulator are discussed. These results are compared to those obtained using the CCITT H.261 standard. These results in the context of the CCSDS specifications are evaluated and some suggestions as to how the ADTV system could be implemented in the NASA network are made
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