Probabilistic Tile Visibility-Based Server-Side Rate Adaptation for Adaptive 360-Degree Video Streaming

• Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in signal processing Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 161 - 176
• Main Authors: Zou, Junni, Li, Chenglin, Liu, Chengming, Yang, Qin, Xiong, Hongkai, Steinbach, Eckehard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 360-degree video; Adaptation; Adaptation models; Algorithms; Artificial neural networks; Forecasting; Optimization; Prediction models; Predictive models; Quality of experience; Resource management; server-side rate adaptation; Servers; Signal processing algorithms; Statistical analysis; Streaming media; tile visibility probability; tile-based adaptive streaming; Tiles; User requirements; Video transmission; viewpoint/viewport prediction; Visibility

In this article, we study the server-side rate adaptation problem for streaming tile-based adaptive 360-degree videos to multiple users who are competing for transmission resources at the network bottleneck. Specifically, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based viewpoint prediction mod...