285 research outputs found

    Pre-processing techniques to improve HEVC subjective quality

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    Nowadays, HEVC is the cutting edge encoding standard being the most efficient solution for transmission of video content. In this paper a subjective quality improvement based on pre-processing algorithms for homogeneous and chaotic regions detection is proposed and evaluated for low bit-rate applications at high resolutions. This goal is achieved by means of a texture classification applied to the input frames. Furthermore, these calculations help also reduce the complexity of the HEVC encoder. Therefore both the subjective quality and the HEVC performance are improved

    Survey of Error Concealment techniques: Research directions and open issues

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    Ā© 2015 IEEE. Error Concealment (EC) techniques use either spatial, temporal or a combination of both types of information to recover the data lost in transmitted video. In this paper, existing EC techniques are reviewed, which are divided into three categories, namely Intra-frame EC, Inter-frame EC, and Hybrid EC techniques. We first focus on the EC techniques developed for the H.264/AVC standard. The advantages and disadvantages of these EC techniques are summarized with respect to the features in H.264. Then, the EC algorithms are also analyzed. These EC algorithms have been recently adopted in the newly introduced H.265/HEVC standard. A performance comparison between the classic EC techniques developed for H.264 and H.265 is performed in terms of the average PSNR. Lastly, open issues in the EC domain are addressed for future research consideration

    Towards visualization and searching :a dual-purpose video coding approach

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    In modern video applications, the role of the decoded video is much more than filling a screen for visualization. To offer powerful video-enabled applications, it is increasingly critical not only to visualize the decoded video but also to provide efficient searching capabilities for similar content. Video surveillance and personal communication applications are critical examples of these dual visualization and searching requirements. However, current video coding solutions are strongly biased towards the visualization needs. In this context, the goal of this work is to propose a dual-purpose video coding solution targeting both visualization and searching needs by adopting a hybrid coding framework where the usual pixel-based coding approach is combined with a novel feature-based coding approach. In this novel dual-purpose video coding solution, some frames are coded using a set of keypoint matches, which not only allow decoding for visualization, but also provide the decoder valuable feature-related information, extracted at the encoder from the original frames, instrumental for efficient searching. The proposed solution is based on a flexible joint Lagrangian optimization framework where pixel-based and feature-based processing are combined to find the most appropriate trade-off between the visualization and searching performances. Extensive experimental results for the assessment of the proposed dual-purpose video coding solution under meaningful test conditions are presented. The results show the flexibility of the proposed coding solution to achieve different optimization trade-offs, notably competitive performance regarding the state-of-the-art HEVC standard both in terms of visualization and searching performance.Em modernas aplicaƧƵes de vĆ­deo, o papel do vĆ­deo decodificado Ć© muito mais que simplesmente preencher uma tela para visualizaĆ§Ć£o. Para oferecer aplicaƧƵes mais poderosas por meio de sinais de vĆ­deo,Ć© cada vez mais crĆ­tico nĆ£o apenas considerar a qualidade do conteĆŗdo objetivando sua visualizaĆ§Ć£o, mas tambĆ©m possibilitar meios de realizar busca por conteĆŗdos semelhantes. Requisitos de visualizaĆ§Ć£o e de busca sĆ£o considerados, por exemplo, em modernas aplicaƧƵes de vĆ­deo vigilĆ¢ncia e comunicaƧƵes pessoais. No entanto, as atuais soluƧƵes de codificaĆ§Ć£o de vĆ­deo sĆ£o fortemente voltadas aos requisitos de visualizaĆ§Ć£o. Nesse contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho Ć© propor uma soluĆ§Ć£o de codificaĆ§Ć£o de vĆ­deo de propĆ³sito duplo, objetivando tanto requisitos de visualizaĆ§Ć£o quanto de busca. Para isso, Ć© proposto um arcabouƧo de codificaĆ§Ć£o em que a abordagem usual de codificaĆ§Ć£o de pixels Ć© combinada com uma nova abordagem de codificaĆ§Ć£o baseada em features visuais. Nessa soluĆ§Ć£o, alguns quadros sĆ£o codificados usando um conjunto de pares de keypoints casados, possibilitando nĆ£o apenas visualizaĆ§Ć£o, mas tambĆ©m provendo ao decodificador valiosas informaƧƵes de features visuais, extraĆ­das no codificador a partir do conteĆŗdo original, que sĆ£o instrumentais em aplicaƧƵes de busca. A soluĆ§Ć£o proposta emprega um esquema flexĆ­vel de otimizaĆ§Ć£o Lagrangiana onde o processamento baseado em pixel Ć© combinado com o processamento baseado em features visuais objetivando encontrar um compromisso adequado entre os desempenhos de visualizaĆ§Ć£o e de busca. Os resultados experimentais mostram a flexibilidade da soluĆ§Ć£o proposta em alcanƧar diferentes compromissos de otimizaĆ§Ć£o, nomeadamente desempenho competitivo em relaĆ§Ć£o ao padrĆ£o HEVC tanto em termos de visualizaĆ§Ć£o quanto de busca
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