Performance evaluation of H.264/MPEG4 scalable video coding depending on spatial resolution

Author

Bacquet, A.-S. ; Deknudt, C. ; Bouhlal, A. ; Corlay, P. ; Coudoux, F.-X. ; Gharbi, M.

Author_Institution

DOAE, Univ. Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the performances of SNR scalability provided by the scalable extension of the H.264/MPEG4 advanced video coding standard, also known as Scalable Video Coding (SVC), depending on the spatial resolution of the input video sequence. Preliminary simulation results show that SVC performances are directly related to spatial resolution of input video. In particular, video quality gains obtained by adding the enhancement layer to the base one, in terms of PSNR, are inferior when considering high resolution video contents in comparison with low ones, for similar bit rate ratios. We also propose a discussion on the consequences of this result on transmission schemes.

Keywords

image resolution; image sequences; video coding; H.264; MPEG4; advanced video coding standard; input video sequence; performance evaluation; scalable video coding; spatial resolution; Bit rate; High definition video; MPEG 4 Standard; PSNR; Quantization; Static VAr compensators; Image resolution; Performance evaluation; Scalable Video Coding (SVC); Unequal Error Protection (UEP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nuremberg

ISSN

2155-5044

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-121-2

Electronic_ISBN

2155-5044

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMSB.2011.5954968

Filename

5954968