Title
Switching frames for constant bit rate video streams
Abstract
To map the data rate to the available channel bandwidth, one method is to switch between video streams of different qualities using either intra (I-) frames or the switching predictive (SP-) frames of H.264. Due to its better coding efficiency SP-frames are preferred over I-frames, but these frames are generally exercised with variable bit rate (VBR) coded videos, therefore limiting their usage. For constant bit rate (CBR) coded videos, in which the quantization parameters (QP) are decided on the fly for every macro block, the design of SP-frames becomes difficult due to the multiple (twice) quantizations used in SP-frames. In this paper we propose to design SP-frames for CBR coded videos, selecting the QPs in such a way that the varying QP nature of CBR coding is preserved. The proposed algorithm is compared with the already implemented SP-frame concept for VBR video coding, showing that both the concepts have similar behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7590
MobiMedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
multimedia,constant bit rate,variable bit rate
Reference frame,Algorithmic efficiency,Computer science,Constant bitrate,Coding (social sciences),Real-time computing,Harmonic Vector Excitation Coding,Quantization (signal processing),Channel capacity,Variable bitrate
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Altaf1434.70
E. Khan25612.71
Mohammed Ghanbari31197169.16