H.264/SVC ROI ENCODING WITH SPATIAL SCALABILITY

Lino Ferreira, Luís Cruz, Pedro Assunção

2008

Abstract

This paper proposes two H.264/AVC compliant methods for encoding Regions-of-Interest (ROI) with spatial scalability and evaluates their respective rate-distortion-complexity performance. The base layer is kept unchanged and provides lower resolution images with roughly constant quality, without identification of the ROI. In the proposed methods there is no need to encode contour information because the ROI is implicitly defined in the upper layer of the spatial resolution in a transparent way by using different encoding parameters for the ROI and its complementary region. It is shown, that spatial scalability in ROI can be efficiently used to enhance specific regions of an image sequence in both spatial resolution and quality with low coding complexity. The proposed encoding scheme is suitable for remote surveillance, medical applications and entertainment, where higher resolution and higher quality ROI is a useful functionality for object/face recognition, selective encryption, detail analysis, etc.

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in Harvard Style

Ferreira L., Cruz L. and Assunção P. (2008). H.264/SVC ROI ENCODING WITH SPATIAL SCALABILITY . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-60-9, pages 212-215. DOI: 10.5220/0001938302120215


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap08,
author={Lino Ferreira and Luís Cruz and Pedro Assunção},
title={H.264/SVC ROI ENCODING WITH SPATIAL SCALABILITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={212-215},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001938302120215},
isbn={978-989-8111-60-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)
TI - H.264/SVC ROI ENCODING WITH SPATIAL SCALABILITY
SN - 978-989-8111-60-9
AU - Ferreira L.
AU - Cruz L.
AU - Assunção P.
PY - 2008
SP - 212
EP - 215
DO - 10.5220/0001938302120215