A low-complexity quantization-domain H.264/SVC to H.264/AVC transcoder with medium-grain quality scalability

Lei Sun, Zhenyu Liu, Takeshi Ikenaga

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Abstract

Scalable Video Coding (SVC) aiming to provide the ability to adapt to heterogeneous requirements. It offers great flexibility for bitstream adaptation in multi-point applications. However, transcoding between SVC and AVC is necessary due to the existence of legacy AVC-based systems. This paper proposes a fast SVC-to-AVC MGS (Medium-Grain quality Scalability) transcoder. A quantization-domain transcoding architecture is proposed for transcoding non-KEY pictures in MGS. KEY pictures are transcoded by drift-free architecture so that error propagation is constrained. Simulation results show that proposed transcoder achieves averagely 37 times speed-up compared with the re-encoding method with acceptable coding efficiency loss.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Multimedia Modeling - 19th International Conference, MMM 2013, Proceedings
Pages336-346
Number of pages11
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013 Dec 1
Event19th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2013 - Huangshan, China
Duration: 2013 Jan 72013 Jan 9

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume7732 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHuangshan
Period13/1/713/1/9

Keywords

  • Low complexity
  • MGS
  • Quantization domain
  • SVC/AVC transcoding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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