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Many multimedia applications require precise understanding of the rate-distortion characteristics measured by the function relating visual quality to media attributes, for which we term it the generalized rate-distortion (GRD) function. In…
Quality assessment for User Generated Content (UGC) videos plays an important role in ensuring the viewing experience of end-users. Previous UGC video quality assessment (VQA) studies either use the image recognition model or the image…
Most video platforms provide video streaming services with different qualities, and the quality of the services is usually adjusted by the resolution of the videos. So high-resolution videos need to be downsampled for compression. In order…
Rate distortion optimization plays a very important role in image/video coding. But for 3D point cloud, this problem has not been investigated. In this paper, the rate and distortion characteristics of 3D point cloud are investigated in…
This paper presents a novel algorithm that aims at minimizing the required decoding energy by exploiting a general energy model for HEVC-decoder solutions. We incorporate the energy model into the HEVC encoder such that it is capable of…
In recent years, user-generated content (UGC) has become one of the major video types consumed via streaming networks. Numerous research contributions have focused on assessing its visual quality through subjective tests and objective…
Rate-distortion optimization (RDO) of codecs, where distortion is quantified by the mean-square error, has been a standard practice in image/video compression over the years. RDO serves well for optimization of codec performance for…
Neural video compression (NVC) has demonstrated superior compression efficiency, yet effective rate control remains a significant challenge due to complex temporal dependencies. Existing rate control schemes typically leverage frame content…
Common state-of-the-art video codecs are optimized to deliver a low bitrate by providing a certain quality for the final human observer, which is achieved by rate-distortion optimization (RDO). But, with the steady improvement of neural…
In rate-distortion optimization, the encoder settings are determined by maximizing a reconstruction quality measure subject to a constraint on the bit rate. One of the main challenges of this approach is to define a quality measure that can…
Geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC), an international standard designed by MPEG, provides a generic framework for compressing diverse types of point clouds while ensuring interoperability across applications and devices. However,…
Classical motion-compensated video coding methods have been standardized by MPEG over the years and video codecs have become integral parts of media entertainment applications. Despite the ubiquitous use of video coding techniques, it is…
Recent years have seen a tremendous growth in both the capability and popularity of automatic machine analysis of images and video. As a result, a growing need for efficient compression methods optimized for machine vision, rather than…
Non-reference metrics (NRMs) can assess the visual quality of images and videos without a reference, making them well-suited for the evaluation of user-generated content. Nonetheless, rate-distortion optimization (RDO) in video coding is…
Deep video compression has made significant progress in recent years, achieving rate-distortion performance that surpasses that of traditional video compression methods. However, rate control schemes tailored for deep video compression have…
Caching at the wireless edge can be used to keep up with the increasing demand for high-definition wireless video streaming. By prefetching popular content into memory at wireless access points or end-user devices, requests can be served…
The state-of-the-art video-based point cloud compression scheme projects the 3D point cloud to 2D patch by patch and organizes the patches into frames to compress them using the efficient video compression scheme. Such a scheme shows a good…
Many images and videos are primarily processed by computer vision algorithms, involving only occasional human inspection. When this content requires compression before processing, e.g., in distributed applications, coding methods must…
This paper aims to delve into the rate-distortion-complexity trade-offs of modern neural video coding. Recent years have witnessed much research effort being focused on exploring the full potential of neural video coding. Conditional…
The proliferation of high resolution videos posts great storage and bandwidth pressure on cloud video services, driving the development of next-generation video codecs. Despite great progress made in neural video coding, existing approaches…