Content-based Rate control for Hybrid Video Transmission

혼합영상 전송을 위한 내용기반 율제어

  • 황재정 (군산대학교전자정보공학부) ;
  • 정동수 (군산대학교전자정보공학부)
  • Published : 2000.08.01

Abstract

A bit-rate controller that can achieve a constant bit rate when coding object-based video sequences is an important part to achieve an adaptation to bit-rate constraints, desired video quality, distribution of bits among objects, relationship between texture and shape coding, and determination of frame skip or not. Therefore we design content-based bit rate controller which will be used for relevant bit-rate control. The implementation is an extension of MPEG-4 rate control algorithm which employs a quadratic rate-quantizer model. The importance of different objects in a video is analyzed and segmented into a number of VOPs which are adaptively bit-allocated using the object-based modelling. Some test sequences are observed by a number of non-experts and interests in each object are analysed. The initial total target bit-rate for all objects is obtained by using the proposed technique. Then the total target bits are jointly analyzed for preventing from overflow or underflow of the buffer fullness. The target bits are distributed to each object in view of its importance, not only of statistical analysis such as motion vector magnitude, size of object shape, and coding distortion of previous frame. The scheme is compared with the rate controller adopted by the MPEG-4 VM8 video coder by representing their statistics and performance.

객체기반 동영상 부호화에서 고정 비트율을 얻도록 하는 율제어기는 채널의 비트율원하는 화질 객체간 분배 텍스쳐 및 형상간 관계 프레임스킵 결정 등에 적응성을 부여하기 위한 중요한 요소이다 따라서 이 논문에서는 울제어에 이용되는내용기반 제어기를 제안한다 이것은 이차 율제어 모델을 이용하는 MPEG-4 기법을 확장한 것이다. 객체간 중요성을 분석하여 VOP로 나뉘어지고 객체기반 모델링에 의해 비트가 할당된다, 중요성을 팍악하기 위해 시험 영상ㅇ을 비전문가에게 관측토록 하여 관심영역 VOP를 분석하였다 이에 의해 초기 목표치가 구해지고 오버플로우나 언더플로우를 방지하기 위해 전체 목표치를 설정한다. 객체간 목표치 분배는 움직임벡터 크기 객체의 크기 이전 프레임의 왜곡 등을 반영하는 통계적 특성에 따라 이루어짐과 동시에 객체의 중요성에 따라 분배하는 기법을 제안한다 제안한 기법을 MPEG-4 VM8 부호기에 사용된것과 비교한다.

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