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A Decoding-Complexity and Rate-Controlled Video-Coding Algorithm for HEVC

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Mallikarachchi, Thanuja
Talagala, Dumidu
Kodikara Arachchi, Hemantha
Hewage, Chaminda
Fernando, Anil
Date
2020-07-16
Acceptance date
2020-07-13
Type
Article
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MDPI
ISSN
1999-5903
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Video playback on mobile consumer electronic (CE) devices is plagued by fluctuations in the network bandwidth and by limitations in processing and energy availability at the individual devices. Seen as a potential solution, the state-of-the-art adaptive streaming mechanisms address the first aspect, yet the efficient control of the decoding-complexity and the energy use when decoding the video remain unaddressed. The quality of experience (QoE) of the end-users’ experiences, however, depends on the capability to adapt the bit streams to both these constraints (i.e., network bandwidth and device’s energy availability). As a solution, this paper proposes an encoding framework that is capable of generating video bit streams with arbitrary bit rates and decoding-complexity levels using a decoding-complexity–rate–distortion model. The proposed algorithm allocates rate and decoding-complexity levels across frames and coding tree units (CTUs) and adaptively derives the CTU-level coding parameters to achieve their imposed targets with minimal distortion. The experimental results reveal that the proposed algorithm can achieve the target bit rate and the decoding-complexity with 0.4% and 1.78% average errors, respectively, for multiple bit rate and decoding-complexity levels. The proposed algorithm also demonstrates a stable frame-wise rate and decoding-complexity control capability when achieving a decoding-complexity reduction of 10.11 (%/dB). The resultant decoding-complexity reduction translates into an overall energy-consumption reduction of up to 10.52 (%/dB) for a 1 dB peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) quality loss compared to the HM 16.0 encoded bit streams.
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Future Internet;
Citation
Mallikarachchi, T., Talagala, D., Kodikara Arachchi, H., Hewage, C. and Fernand, A. (2020) 'A Decoding-Complexity and Rate-Controlled Video-Coding Algorithm for HEVC', Future Internet 2020, 12(7), 120.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10369/11110
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12070120
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Article published in Future Internet on 16 July 2020, available open access at: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12070120.
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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