{"title":"Scalable codec architectures for Internet video-on-demand","authors":"B. Girod, N. Farber, U. Horn","doi":"10.1109/ACSSC.1997.680241","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The heterogeneous structure of the Internet is a great obstacle for establishing real-time video services. Scalable video codecs, generating bit-streams decodable at different rates, have been proposed to address the heterogeneity problem. In this paper, we review standard-compliant and non-compliant codec architectures for Internet video-on-demand. For compression based on the H.263 standard, we have developed a compatible architecture that allows to switch between pre-encoded bit-streamers of different bitrates. This architecture provides excellent streaming performance for point-to-point communication scenarios that offer a low delay feedback channel. Then we present a non-compliant fully scalable video codec based on a spatiotemporal resolution pyramid. This approach can encode embedded lower bit-rate layers at the same overall hit-rate as needed by H.263 single-layer coding and can also support multicasting. The complexity of both schemes is sufficiently low to allow software-only implementations of Internet video services. This is demonstrated by means of an implemented World Wide Web video server application.","PeriodicalId":240431,"journal":{"name":"Conference Record of the Thirty-First Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Cat. No.97CB36136)","volume":"421 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"22","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Record of the Thirty-First Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Cat. No.97CB36136)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSSC.1997.680241","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 22
Abstract
The heterogeneous structure of the Internet is a great obstacle for establishing real-time video services. Scalable video codecs, generating bit-streams decodable at different rates, have been proposed to address the heterogeneity problem. In this paper, we review standard-compliant and non-compliant codec architectures for Internet video-on-demand. For compression based on the H.263 standard, we have developed a compatible architecture that allows to switch between pre-encoded bit-streamers of different bitrates. This architecture provides excellent streaming performance for point-to-point communication scenarios that offer a low delay feedback channel. Then we present a non-compliant fully scalable video codec based on a spatiotemporal resolution pyramid. This approach can encode embedded lower bit-rate layers at the same overall hit-rate as needed by H.263 single-layer coding and can also support multicasting. The complexity of both schemes is sufficiently low to allow software-only implementations of Internet video services. This is demonstrated by means of an implemented World Wide Web video server application.