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Multi-resolution quality-based video coding system for DASH scenarios

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Wilmer Moina-Rivera,

Juan Gutiérrez-Aguado,

Miguel Garcia-PinedaAuthors Info & Claims

NOSSDAV '21: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video

Pages 42 - 49

https://doi.org/10.1145/3458306.3460996

Published: 02 July 2021 Publication History

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Today, more than 85% of Internet traffic has a multimedia component. Video streaming occupies a large part of this percentage mainly because this type of content is provided by the most used applications on the Internet (e.g. Twitch, TikTok, Disney+, YouTube, Netflix, etc.). Most of these platforms use HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) to send this media content to end users in order to ensure a good quality of experience (QoE). But, this QoE should be guaranteed from the video to be transmitted, i.e., the video should have an adequate quality by minimizing the bitrate before transmission. In order to solve this issue, we present a system capable of encoding a video in several resolutions given the desired value of an objective metric. Our system includes the objective metric in the encoding loop in order to maintain the quality in all segments. This system has been tested with three video and five resolutions for each video. Our proposal provides improvements of more than 10% in terms of video size and with similar coding times when compared with a fixed Constant Rate Factor (CRF) encoding. A visual comparison between our proposal and a fixed CRF encoding can be seen at: https://links.uv.es/jgutierr/multiresQ

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Moina-Rivera WGutiérrez-Aguado JGarcia-Pineda M(2023)Video quality metrics toolkit: An open source software to assess video qualitySoftwareX10.1016/j.softx.2023.10142723(101427)Online publication date: Jul-2023
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Moina-Rivera WGutierrez-Aguado JGarcia-Pineda MClaver J(2021)Improving DASH Encoding with Scenes and Downscaling Techniques for VoD Streaming2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685880(1-6)Online publication date: Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685880

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Multi-resolution quality-based video coding system for DASH scenarios
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems
      1. Multimedia streaming

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NOSSDAV '21: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video

July 2021

128 pages

ISBN:9781450384353

DOI:10.1145/3458306

Program Chairs:
Andra Lutu
Telefonica, Spain
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Gwendal Simon
Huawei, France
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Mylene C. Q. Farias
University of Brasilia, Brazil

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MMSys '21: 12th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference

September 28 - October 1, 2021

Istanbul, Turkey

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Moina-Rivera WGutiérrez-Aguado JGarcia-Pineda M(2023)Video quality metrics toolkit: An open source software to assess video qualitySoftwareX10.1016/j.softx.2023.10142723(101427)Online publication date: Jul-2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101427
Moina-Rivera WGutierrez-Aguado JGarcia-Pineda MClaver J(2021)Improving DASH Encoding with Scenes and Downscaling Techniques for VoD Streaming2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685880(1-6)Online publication date: Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685880

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