ROI-BASED RATE CONTROL USING TILES FOR AN HEVC ENCODED VIDEO STREAM OVER A LOSSY NETWORK

Marwa Meddeb (1) , Marco Cagnazzo (2) , Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (2)

1 CERMSEM - CEntre de Recherche en Mathématiques, Statistique et Économie Mathématique
2 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

The growth in the use of high definition (HD) and above video resolutions streams has outstripped the rate at which network infrastructure has been deployed. Video streaming applications require appropriate rate control techniques that make use of the specific characteristics of the video content, such as the regions of interest (ROI). With the introduction of high efficiency video coding (HEVC) streams, we consider new coding features to make a novel ROI-based rate control (RC) algorithm. The proposed approach introduces tiling in a ROI-based rate control scheme. It aims at enhancing the quality of important regions (i.e. faces for a videoconferencing system) considering independently coded regions lying within an ROI and helps evaluating the ROI quality under poor channel conditions. Our work consists of two major steps. First, we designed a RC algorithm based on an independent processing of tiles of different regions. Second, we investigate the effect of ROI-and tile-based rate control algorithm on the decoded quality of the stream transmitted over a lossy channel.

Mots clés: Tiles; Rate control; ROI coding; Packet loss

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Marwa Meddeb, Marco Cagnazzo, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu. ROI-BASED RATE CONTROL USING TILES FOR AN HEVC ENCODED VIDEO STREAM OVER A LOSSY NETWORK. Image Processing (ICIP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, Sep 2015, Quebec city, Canada. ⟨hal-01187296⟩