Fully scalable video coding in multicast applications

Sam Lerouge; Robbie De Sutter; Peter Lambert; Rik Van de Walle

doi:10.1117/12.525642

18 January 2004 Fully scalable video coding in multicast applications

Sam Lerouge, Robbie De Sutter, Peter Lambert, Rik Van de Walle

Proceedings Volume 5308, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2004; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525642
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The increasing diversity of the characteristics of the terminals and networks that are used to access multimedia content through the internet introduces new challenges for the distribution of multimedia data. Scalable video coding will be one of the elementary solutions in this domain. This type of coding allows to adapt an encoded video sequence to the limitations of the network or the receiving device by means of very basic operations. Algorithms for creating fully scalable video streams, in which multiple types of scalability are offered at the same time, are becoming mature. On the other hand, research on applications that use such bitstreams is only recently emerging. In this paper, we introduce a mathematical model for describing such bitstreams. In addition, we show how we can model applications that use scalable bitstreams by means of definitions that are built on top of this model. In particular, we chose to describe a multicast protocol that is targeted at scalable bitstreams. This way, we will demonstrate that it is possible to define an abstract model for scalable bitstreams, that can be used as a tool for reasoning about such bitstreams and related applications.

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Sam Lerouge, Robbie De Sutter, Peter Lambert, and Rik Van de Walle "Fully scalable video coding in multicast applications", Proc. SPIE 5308, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2004, (18 January 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525642

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