TY - GEN
T1 - Scalable video streaming to heterogeneous receivers
AU - Lotfallah, Osama
AU - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
PY - 2006/10/3
Y1 - 2006/10/3
N2 - Video streaming over networks, such as wireless and Internet, is a challenging problem, due to network heterogeneity and variability of the visual content. Various scalable video coding techniques have been proposed to facilitate adaptable transmission of video streams. In this paper, we compare the bandwidth utilization of such scalable schemes for video streaming to receivers of diverse capacities. The results reveal the superiority of scalable schemes that adopt bit plane coding, such as Fine Granularity Scalability (FGS) and Progressive-FGS (PFGS). In addition, we evaluate the reconstructed qualities of FGS and PFGS streams due to heterogeneity of receiver capacities and variability of the transmission channel. The results suggest that, for low bit rate receivers/channels, FGS streams can be used instead of PFGS streams, thus reducing the computational overhead at the video receiver.
AB - Video streaming over networks, such as wireless and Internet, is a challenging problem, due to network heterogeneity and variability of the visual content. Various scalable video coding techniques have been proposed to facilitate adaptable transmission of video streams. In this paper, we compare the bandwidth utilization of such scalable schemes for video streaming to receivers of diverse capacities. The results reveal the superiority of scalable schemes that adopt bit plane coding, such as Fine Granularity Scalability (FGS) and Progressive-FGS (PFGS). In addition, we evaluate the reconstructed qualities of FGS and PFGS streams due to heterogeneity of receiver capacities and variability of the transmission channel. The results suggest that, for low bit rate receivers/channels, FGS streams can be used instead of PFGS streams, thus reducing the computational overhead at the video receiver.
KW - FGS
KW - Hetrogenious receivers
KW - PFGS
KW - Scalable coding
KW - Video adaptation
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U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593175
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593175
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749045001
SN - 1424400856
SN - 9781424400850
T3 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
SP - 933
EP - 937
BT - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
T2 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
Y2 - 8 January 2006 through 10 January 2006
ER -