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Telecommunication Systems
Published in: Telecommunication Systems 1/2016

01-01-2016

Temporal video transcoding from H.264/AVC-to-SVC for digital TV broadcasting

Authors: R. Garrido-Cantos, J. De Cock, J. L. Martinez, S. Van Leuven, P. Cuenca, A. Garrido

Published in: Telecommunication Systems | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

Mobile digital TV environments demand flexible video compression like scalable video coding (SVC) because of varying bandwidths and devices. Since existing infrastructures highly rely on H.264/AVC video compression, network providers could adapt the current H.264/AVC encoded video to SVC. This adaptation needs to be done efficiently to reduce processing power and operational cost. This paper proposes two techniques to convert an H.264/AVC bitstream in Baseline (P-pictures based) and Main Profile (B-pictures based) without scalability to a scalable bitstream with temporal scalability as part of a framework for low-complexity video adaptation for digital TV broadcasting. Our approaches are based on accelerating the interprediction, focusing on reducing the coding complexity of mode decision and motion estimation tasks of the encoder stage by using information available after the H.264/AVC decoding stage. The results show that when our techniques are applied, the complexity is reduced by 98 % while maintaining coding efficiency.
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Metadata
Title
Temporal video transcoding from H.264/AVC-to-SVC for digital TV broadcasting
Authors
R. Garrido-Cantos
J. De Cock
J. L. Martinez
S. Van Leuven
P. Cuenca
A. Garrido
Publication date
01-01-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Telecommunication Systems / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1018-4864
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9451
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-014-9950-z

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