Combining distributed video coding with super-resolution to achieve H.264/AVC performance

Robert Klepko; Demin Wang; Gregory Huchet

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.21.1.013011

18 April 2012 Combining distributed video coding with super-resolution to achieve H.264/AVC performance

Robert Klepko, Demin Wang, Gregory Huchet

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 21, Issue 1, 013011 (April 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.21.1.013011

Abstract

Distributed video coding (DVC) is an emerging video coding paradigm for systems that require low-complexity encoders that are supported by high-complexity decoders as required, for example, in real-time video capture and streaming from one mobile phone to another. Under the assumption of an error-free transmission channel, the coding efficiency of current DVC systems is still below that of the latest video codecs, such as H.264/AVC. In order to increase the coding efficiency, we propose that every Wyner-Ziv frame be downsampled by a factor of two prior to encoding and the subsequent transmission. However, this would necessitate upsampling in conjunction with interpolation at the decoder. Simple interpolation (e.g., a bilinear or bicubic filter) would be insufficient because the high-frequency (HF) spatial image content would be missing. Instead, we propose the incorporation of a super-resolution (SR) technique based upon the example-based scene-specific method to allow this HF content to be recovered. The SR technique will add computational complexity to the decoder side of the DVC system, which is allowable within the DVC framework. Rate-distortion curves show that this novel combination of SR and DVC improves the system's peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) performance by up to several decibels and can actually exceed the performance of the H.264/AVC codec when GOP = IP for some video sequences.

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Robert Klepko, Demin Wang, and Gregory Huchet "Combining distributed video coding with super-resolution to achieve H.264/AVC performance," Journal of Electronic Imaging 21(1), 013011 (18 April 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.21.1.013011

Published: 18 April 2012

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