Scalable mobile-to-mobile video communications based on an improved WZ-to-SVC transcoder

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Corrales-Garcia;José Luis Martínez;Gerardo Fernández-Escribano;Francisco Jose Quiles

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete (I3A), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain;Architecture and Technology of Computing Systems Group, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain;Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete (I3A), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain;Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete (I3A), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

  • Venue:
  • MMM'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Nowadays, video communications between mobile devices are one of the most demanded multimedia services. Since Wyner-Ziv coding provides low cost video encoding, it is a suitable codec to encode video with less resources. On the other hand, the video delivery provided by Scalable Video Coding covers the needs of a wide range of homogeneous networks and different devices. As a consequence, Wyner-Ziv to Scalable Video Coding transcoding can offer a suitable framework to support scalable video communications between low-cost devices. However, the complexity of the transcoder accumulates most of the complexity of both codecs and it must be reduced. In this paper, we introduced an improved Wyner-Ziv to Scalable Video Coding transcoding framework to support homogeneous mobile video communications. The experimental results show that the complexity is reduced around 83.5% without significant Rate-Distortion penalty.