Analysis of the efficiency of SNR-scalable strategies for motion compensated video coders

In this paper, an analysis of the efficiency of three signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scalable strategies for motion compensated video coders and their non-scalable counterpart is presented. After assuming some models and hypotheses with respect to the signals and systems involved, we have obtained the SNR of each coding strategy as a function of the decoding rate. To validate our analysis, we have compared our theoretical results with data from encodings of real video sequences. Results show that our analysis describes qualitatively the performance of each scalable strategy, and therefore, it can be useful to understand main features of each scalable technique and what factors influence their efficiency.