Rho-domain based Rate Control Scheme for Spatial, Temporal and Quality Scalable Video Coding

Yohann Pitrey (1) , Marie Babel (2) , Olivier Déforges (2) , Jérôme Viéron (3)

1 IETR - Institut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes
2 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
3 Video Compression Lab - Thomson R&D

Rate control is a capital issue in video coding. It allows a regulation of the bitrate out from the encoder, to cope with some network transmission or quality constraints. Scalable Video Coding emerged several years ago as an answer to the growing need of application-adaptable video streams. Although the interest of scalable video coding has been confirmed by recent studies, it can not be used in practical contexts without proper rate control techniques. In this paper we present a new rate control scheme for scalable video, based on a simple yet attractive bitrate modelling framework called -domain. Our scheme performs accurate rate control on spatial, temporal and quality scalabilities, while maintaining a constant PSNR. Inter layer prediction is also handled effectively.

Domains: Signal and Image processing; Signal and Image Processing

Yohann Pitrey, Marie Babel, Olivier Déforges, Jérôme Viéron. Rho-domain based Rate Control Scheme for Spatial, Temporal and Quality Scalable Video Coding. VCIP'09, Jan 2009, San Jose, United States. pp.1-8. ⟨hal-00336078⟩