Temporal video transcoding for Digital TV broadcasting

• Published in: 2012 5th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC) pp. 95 - 100
• Main Authors: Garrido-Cantos, R., Martinez, J. L., Cuenca, P., Garrido, A., De Cock, J., Van Leuven, S., Van de Walle, R.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2012
• Subjects: Complexity theory; Data Mining; H.264/AVC; Mobile communication; Mobile Digital TV; Motion estimation; Scalability; Scalable Video Coding (SVC); Static VAr compensators; Temporal Scalability; Transcoding; Video Adaptation; Video coding
• ISBN: 9781467329934; 1467329932
• DOI: 10.1109/WMNC.2012.6416142

Mobile Digital TV environments demand flexible video compression like Scalable Video Coding (SVC) because of varying bandwidths and devices. Since existing infrastructures highly rely on H.264/AVC video compression, network providers could adapt the current H.264/AVC encoded video to SVC. This adaptation needs to be done efficiently to reduce processing power and operational cost. This paper proposes two techniques to convert an H.264/AVC bitstream in Main Profile (B-pictures based) without scalability to a scalable bitstream with temporal scalability as part of a framework for low-complexity video adaptation for mobile digital TV. Our approaches are based on accelerating the interprediction, focusing on reducing the coding complexity of mode decision and motion estimation tasks of the encoder stage by using information available after the H.264/AVC decoding stage. The results show that when our techniques are applied, the complexity is reduced by 98% while maintaining coding efficiency.