Operational rate-distortion modeling for wavelet video coders

Author

Wang, Mingshi ; Van der Schaar, Mihaela

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA

Volume

54

Issue

9

fYear

2006

Firstpage

3505

Lastpage

3517

Abstract

Based on our statistical investigation of a typical three-dimensional (3-D) wavelet codec, we present a unified mathematical model to describe its operational rate-distortion (RD) behavior. The quantization distortion of the reconstructed video frames is assessed by tracking the quantization noise along the 3-D wavelet decomposition trees. The coding bit-rate is estimated for a class of embedded video coders. Experimental results show that the model captures sequence characteristics accurately and reveals the relationship between wavelet decomposition levels and the overall RD performance. After being trained with offline RD data, the model enables accurate prediction of real RD performance of video codecs and therefore can enable optimal RD adaptation of the encoding parameters according to various network conditions

Keywords

image reconstruction; trees (mathematics); video codecs; video coding; wavelet transforms; 3D wavelet decomposition trees; coding bit-rate; quantization noise tracking; rate distortion; three-dimensional wavelet codec; unified mathematical model; video coders; video frames reconstruction; wavelet video coders; Bit rate; Codecs; Discrete wavelet transforms; Gaussian processes; Mathematical model; Predictive models; Quantization; Random processes; Rate-distortion; Scalability; Context coding; discrete wavelet transform (DWT); entropy; rate-distortion function;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-587X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSP.2006.879273

Filename

1677915