The MPEG-4 fine-grained scalable video coding method for multimedia streaming over IP

Author

Radha, Hayder M. ; Van der Schaar, Mihaela ; Chen, Yingwei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Video Commun. Res., Philips Res. Lab., Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

68

Abstract

Real-time streaming of audiovisual content over the Internet is emerging as an important technology area in multimedia communications. Due to the wide variation of available bandwidth over Internet sessions, there is a need for scalable video coding methods and (corresponding) flexible streaming approaches that are capable of adapting to changing network conditions in real time. In this paper, we describe a new scalable video-coding framework that has been adopted recently by the MPEG-4 video standard. This new MPEG-4 video approach, which is known as Fine-Granular-Scalability (FGS), consists of a rich set of video coding tools that support quality (i.e., SNR), temporal, and hybrid temporal-SNR scalabilities. Moreover, one of the desired features of the MPEG-J FGS method is its simplicity and flexibility in supporting unicast and multicast streaming applications over IF

Keywords

multimedia communication; transport protocols; video coding; Fine-Granular-Scalability; Internet; MPEG-4; audiovisual content; multimedia communications; multimedia streaming; scalable video coding; Bandwidth; IP networks; Internet; MPEG 4 Standard; Multimedia communication; Scalability; Streaming media; Unicast; Video coding; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1520-9210

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6046.909594

Filename

909594