视频信息与定位信息融合技术研究

提出了“视频雷达”这一新的概念,即基于视频信息和电子定位信息的应用技术,重点研究了监控视频信息和目标定位信息的融合算法,研究电子定位信息获取技术、视频目标提取跟踪技术、视频信息与地理信息的匹配技术,从而通过视频、位置、时间三个主要维度确定目标的存在,复合高价值的视频信息,实现精确跟踪与监控目标.     

Radio Link Buffer Management and Scheduling for Wireless Video Streaming

In this paper we compare strategies for joint radio link buffer management and scheduling for wireless video streaming. Based on previous work in this area [8], we search for an optimal combination of scheduler and drop strategy for different end-to-end streaming options including timestamp-based streaming and ahead-of-time streaming, both with variable initial playout delay. We will show that a performance gain versus the two best drop strategies in Liebl et al. [8], i.e. drop the HOL packet or drop the packet with the lowest priority starting from HOL, is possible: Provided that some basic side-information on the structure of the incoming video stream is available, a more sophisticated drop strategy removes packets from an HOL group of packets in such a way that the temporal dependencies usually present in video streams are not violated. This advanced buffer management scheme yields significant improvements for almost all investigated scheduling algorithms and streaming options. In addition, we will demonstrate the importance of fairness among users when selecting a suitable scheduler, especially if ahead-of-time streaming is to be applied: Given a reasonable initial playout delay at the streaming media client, both the overall achievable quality averaged over all users, as well as the individual quality of users with bad channel conditions can be increased significantly by trading off fairness with maximum throughput of the system.     

基于多种上下文结构与线性融合的特定敏感视频识别

本文中特定敏感视频是指恐怖和暴力视频,现有的特定敏感视频识别算法或是忽略了视频的多种上下文结构信息;或是忽略了各种特征间潜在的依赖关系.因此,本文提出了一种基于多种上下文结构与线性融合的特定敏感视频识别方法,首先针对某种视频提取多种有效特征,并获取镜头间的上下文结构信息;然后,在每一个特征空间中利用上下文结构训练一个SVM分类器;最后,获取不同特征间的依赖关系,采用线性依赖模型融合多个分类器的结果,提高视频的识别率.在特定敏感视频库上的实验结果验证了该方法比现有的其它算法有更好的性能和稳定性.     

音视频压缩板卡研究与设计

分析和总结了目前市场上一些主流的音视频压缩板卡的特点和应用情况,指出了其发展方向.以自行开发的基于DM642的MPEG-4压缩板卡系统为例,对其具体问题进行了技术设计和开发难度分析.     

网络视频监控系统信息安全机制解析

信息安全机制是网络视频监控系统安全体系中的核心部分,其安全性包括业务数据安全性和音视频媒体数据安全性,对此,业界有多种解决方案和算法标准,选择了监控业界两个代表性网络视频监控标准的信息安全机制进行解读,分析了主流解决方案和算法,最后提出了通用的视频监控的信息安全机制建议.     

A practical design of digital watermarking for video streaming services

A practical design of digital watermarking for video streaming services is proposed in this research. The information of a legitimate recipient is represented as a watermark, which is embedded in the video stream to serve as a cue to trace the recipient in case a clone of the video is illegally distributed. The watermark signals are designed to embed in some areas of video frames to benefit the video stream server, as the result of only partial actions required, including decoding, processing and re-encoding. The invariance of feature points and the self-similarity of hidden signals are further exploited to enable watermark detection without involving the original video. The watermark can decently survive transcoding processes and geometrical modifications of frames. The experimental results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed scheme in terms of watermark visibility, capacity and detection methodology.     

Rough mode cost–based fast intra coding for high-efficiency video coding

The quadtree-based coding unit (CU) and transform unit (TU) structure, as well as various prediction units (PUs) of HEVC, considerably increase encoding complexity in intra coding and inter coding. This paper proposes a rough mode cost (RMC)-based algorithm for accelerating CU/TU depth decisions and PU mode decisions in HEVC intra coding. For CU depth decisions, RMC values are used for the fast determination of CU partition. In the case of PU mode decisions, modes with higher RMCs are removed from the candidate list to reduce the number of test modes. For TU depth decisions, the TU partition of the mode with the least RMC is used to determine the TU partitions of remaining modes. The proposed TU partitioning method demonstrates superior performance to the default method in reference software. The proposed algorithm can reduce encoding time by approximately 51% on average, with a 0.69% increase in the Bjøntegaard-Delta (BD) rate.     

A 1.485‐Gbit/s Video Signal Transmission System at Carrier Frequencies of 240 GHz and 300 GHz

A 1.485‐Gbit/s video signal transmission system at carrier frequencies of 240 GHz and 300 GHz was implemented and demonstrated. The radio frequency front‐ends are composed of Schottky barrier diode subharmonic mixers (SHMs), frequency triplers, and diagonal horn antennas for the transmitter and receiver. Amplitude shift keying with an intermediate frequency of 5.94 GHz was utilized as the modulation scheme. A 1.485‐Gbit/s video signal with a high‐definition serial digital interface format was successfully transmitted over a wireless link distance of 4.2 m and displayed on an HDTV with a transmitted average output power of 20 µW at a 300‐GHz system.     

A neural network-based video bit-rate control algorithm for variable bit-rate applications of versatile video coding standard

Versatile video coding is a new video coding standard that has more capabilities and higher coding efficiency compared with its predecessor. Practical video storage and transmission applications face constrained buffer size and available bandwidth. It is necessary to design the appropriate rate control algorithm to overcome such challenges. In this paper, the non-linear relationship between consumed bits, buffer size, and quantization parameter is estimated by taking the advantages of artificial neural networks, and a rate control algorithm is developed for real-time variable bit rate applications of the versatile video coding standard. The proposed rate control algorithm performs the control action in only one step that results in faster control action. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm controls the bit-rate as well as the buffer state. Also, the rate–distortion analysis shows that the well-known $\lambda$-domain algorithm has only 2.7% bit-rate reduction in comparison with the proposed method.     

Online traffic smoothing for delivery of variable bit rate media streams

Traffic smoothing for delivery of online variable bit rate (VBR) media streams is one of the most important problems in designingmultimedia systems. Given an available client buffer, a window size, and a window-sliding size, previous window-based online smoothing methods have tried to reduce the peak bandwidth allocated in each window. However, as bandwidths allocated in different windows are minimized independently, these methods require a large peak bandwidth for transmitting an entire stream. In this paper, a new window-based method is proposed. It introduces two new ideas, the dynamic windowsliding size and the aggressive workahead, for delivery of online VBR media streams. Our aggressive and dynamic window sliding (ADWS) method can automatically decide on the suitable window-sliding sizes for different windows. Thus, the allocated peak bandwidth can be further reduced. By examining various media streams, ADWS is shown to be effective and efficient. Considering the online transmission of the movieStar Wars with a 90-kB client buffer, ADWS yields 13% less in peak bandwidth, compared with the bestknown window-based online smoothing algorthm SLWIN(1). Its computation cost (the window-sliding number) is 75% of that required by SLWIN(1).This work was partially supported by NSC, Taiwan, under grants. NSC88-2213-E-001-011, NSC88-2213-E-001-012, and NSC88-2213-E-001-025. A primitive version of this work appeared in IEEE INFOCOM'99 [7].