Paper Info
Title
Using Placeholder Slices and MPEG-21 BSDL for ROI Extraction in H.264/AVC FMO-Encoded Bitstreams
Abstract
The concept of Regions of Interest (ROIs) within a video sequence is useful for many application scenarios. This paper concentrates on the exploitation of ROI coding within the H.264/AVC specification by making use of Flexible Macroblock Ordering. It shows how ROIs can be coded in an H.264/AVC compliant bitstream and how the MPEG-21 BSDL framework can be used for the extraction of the ROIs. The first type of ROI extraction that is described, is simply dropping the slices that are not part of one of the ROIs. The second type is the replacement of these slices with so-called placeholder slices, the latter being implemented as P slices containing only macroblocks that are marked as 'skipped'. The exploitation of ROI scalability, as achieved by the presented methodology, illustrates the possibilities that are offered by the single-layered H.264/AVC specification for content adaptation. The results show that the bit rate needed to transmit the adapted bitstreams can be reduced significantly. Especially in the case of a static camera and a fixed background, this bit rate reduction has very little impact on the visual quality. Another advantage of the adaptation process is the fact that the execution speed of the receiving decoder fairly increases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/978-3-540-70760-8_14
E-BUSINESS AND TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Content adaptation,FMO,H.264/AVC,MPEG-21 BSDL,placeholder slices,ROI,video coding
Computer vision,MPEG-21,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Coding (social sciences),Artificial intelligence,Flexible Macroblock Ordering,Bitstream,Content adaptation,Scalability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9.0
1865-0929
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Lambert153867.24
Wesley De Neve252554.41
Davy De Schrijver312417.67
Yves Dhondt4996.80
Rik Van de Walle52040238.28