Semantic scalability using tennis videos as examples

With advances in broadcasting technologies, people are now able to watch videos on devices such as televisions, computers, and mobile phones. Scalable video provides video bitstreams of different size under different transmission bandwidths. In this paper, a semantic scalability scheme with four lev...

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Published inMultimedia tools and applications Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 585 - 599
Main Authors Lai, Jui-Hsin, Chien, Shao-Yi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.07.2012
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Acceptability
Bandwidths
Categories
Cellular telephones
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Science
Data Structures and Information Theory
Multimedia
Multimedia Information Systems
Semantics
Shot
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems
Television
Television sets
Tennis
Video compression
Visual
Scalable video coding
Scalable video
Video analysis
Content adaptive
Video rendering
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Summary:With advances in broadcasting technologies, people are now able to watch videos on devices such as televisions, computers, and mobile phones. Scalable video provides video bitstreams of different size under different transmission bandwidths. In this paper, a semantic scalability scheme with four levels is proposed, and tennis videos are used as examples in experiments to test the scheme. Rather than detecting shot categories to determine suitable scaling options for Scalable Video Coding (SVC) as in previous studies, the proposed method analyzes a video, transmits video content according to semantic priority, and reintegrates the extracted contents in the receiver. The purpose of the lower bitstream size in the proposed method is to discard video content of low semantic importance instead of decreasing the video quality to reduce the video bitstream. The experimental results show that visual quality is still maintained in our method despite reducing the bitstream size. Further, in a user study, we show that evaluators identify the visual quality as more acceptable and the video information as clearer than those of SVC. Finally, we suggest that the proposed scalability scheme in the semantic domain, which provides a new dimension for scaling videos, can be extended to various video categories.
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ISSN:1380-7501
1573-7721
DOI:10.1007/s11042-010-0685-x