采用FPGA通过BT.656接口实现传输4路视频流的方法

提出一种使用FPGA(现场可编程门阵列)实现一个ITU-R BT.656并行硬件接口传输4路CIF格式视频流的方法。该方法说明了从视频处理器到FPGA传输4路CIF格式视频流的数据结构,利用该数据结构,一个ITU-R BT.656的硬件接口可传输4路不同的CIF格式的视频数据流。FP-GA将4路视频数据流分离、插值生成D1(720×576像素)格式的数据输出给视频处理器。这种方法提高了视频处理器的扩展性,增加了视频处理器输出视频的路数。     

目标基视频编码中的运动目标提取与跟踪新算法

自动、快速的视频目标提取与跟踪是目标基视频编码中的一项关键技术.本文提出一种运动目标提取与跟踪新算法.首先,根据多帧运动信息和高阶统计检测方法得到二值运动掩模图像,然后提出一种改进分水岭算法对运动区域及其周围部分进行分割.将二者所得结果进行投影运算,得到最终运动目标.最后提出一种运动目标跟踪新算法,能对目标进行有效的跟踪.实验结果说明了本文算法的有效性.     

MPEG-2压缩域的视频数字水印新算法

视频数字水印技术是当前水印研究中的一个热点.本文提出一种视频数字水印新算法,直接对压缩后的视频数据流进行操作,根据运动矢量的特征值,将水印信息嵌入到运动矢量上,不需要完全解码和再编码过程.所提出的水印算法简单、有效,实现了水印盲检.与嵌入水印前的原视频图像相比,嵌入水印后的视频图像信噪比损失很小.     

Eliminating bandwidth estimation from adaptive video streaming in wireless networks

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the state-of-the-art technology for video streaming and has been widely deployed in both wired and wireless environments. However, mobile DASH users often suffer from video quality oscillation and even video freeze in wireless environments, which results in poor user experience. This is mainly because most quality adaptation algorithms in DASH rely highly on bandwidth estimation to adjust the video quality while wireless network bandwidth is unstable in nature and changes frequently according to wireless channel contention and condition. To provide stable performance, even during severe bandwidth fluctuation, this paper proposes the Wireless Quality Adaptation (WQUAD) algorithm, which eliminates bandwidth estimation from quality adaptation. Thanks to the Scalable Video Codec (SVC), the proposed scheme always prioritizes to lower layers over higher ones as long as the play-out buffer is not completely filled by the lower layers. As a result, the client always fills the buffer with the base layers first and then the upper enhancement layers sequentially. This horizontal adaptation is straightforward and does not require any bandwidth estimation. Through NS-2 simulations, we show that WQUAD achieves (i) stable performance, keeping the video quality level with respect to the long-term network bandwidth, (ii) effective video freeze prevention, and (iii) high video quality on average.     

地方视频会议会商系统的建设与应用

建设多媒体业务的视频会议系统,综合语音、图像、数据等信息,通过网络介质进行远距离高速传输,可增强在不同区域交流的亲切感和临场感,提供一种简便而有效的工作手段,充分发挥视频会议实时高效的特点,将显著提高决策和工作效率,尤其能为政府在防灾减灾的指挥决策方面起到积极快速反应的作用。     

Cross-layer optimized authentication and error control for wireless 3D medical video streaming over LTE

3D video for tele-medicine applications is gradually gaining momentum since the 3D technology can provide precise location information. However, the weak link for 3D video streaming is the necessary wireless link of the communication system. Neglecting the wireless impairments can severely degrade the performance of 3D video streaming that communicates complex critical medical data. In this paper, we propose systematic methodology for ensuring high performance of the 3D medical video streaming system. First, we present a recursive end-to-end distortion estimation approach for MVC (multiview video coding)-based 3D video streaming over error-prone networks by considering the 3D inter-view prediction. Then, based on the previous model, we develop a cross-layer optimization scheme that considers the LTE wireless physical layer (PHY). In this optimization, the authentication requirements of 3D medical video are also taken into account. The proposed cross-layer optimization approach jointly controls and manages the authentication, video coding quantization of 3D video, and the modulation and channel coding scheme (MCS) of the LTE wireless PHY to minimize the end-to-end video distortion. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can provide superior 3D medical video streaming performance in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) when compared to state-of-the-art approaches that include joint source-channel optimized streaming with multi-path hash-chaining based-authentication, and also conventional video streaming with single path hash-chaining-based authentication.     

TD-LTE主设备节能新技术简介

如何在节能减排的大背景下,不断开拓新思路、运用新技术,在不影响网络质量的情况下尽可能的提升设备能效是网络发展的必由之路,本文重点介绍了应用于TD-LTE主设备的几种节能新技术,通过对4G系统架构的分析,从硬件和软件2个方面着重阐述了新技术的原理及节能效果。     

Improved macroblock level rate control for the spatially scalable extension of H.264/AVC

An improved rate control algorithm, designed for scalable video coders incorporating interlayer prediction, is proposed. Firstly, a Rate Distortion (RD) model for interlayer prediction involving the spatial enhancement layers is devised. An optimised Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) prediction model for the spatial enhancement layers that considers both the MAD from the spatial base layer in the same frame and the MAD from the corresponding macroblock in previous frames is also proposed. Simulation results show that the resulting algorithm produces accurate rate control with an average bit rate error of less than 0.26%. Compared with the JVT-W043 default rate control algorithm of the JSVM, the proposed algorithm improves the average PSNR by up to 0.53 dB or reduces the bit rate by an average of 10.95%. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can be combined with the existing rate control scheme for H.264/AVC, resulting in further improvements.     

A novel adaptive logic for dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP

In this paper, we propose an estimation method that estimates the throughput of upcoming video segments based on variations in the network throughput observed during the download of previous video segments. Then, we propose a rate-adaptive algorithm for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming. The proposed algorithm selects the quality of the video based on the estimated throughput and playback buffer occupancy. The proposed method selects high-quality video segments, while minimizing video quality changes and the risk of playback interruption, improving user’s experience. We evaluate the algorithm for single- and multi-user environments and demonstrate that it performs remarkably well under varying network conditions. Furthermore, we determine that it efficiently utilizes network resources to achieve a high video rate; competing HTTP clients achieve equitable video rates. We also confirm that variations in the playback buffer size and segment duration do not affect the performance of the proposed algorithm.     

Investigating undergraduate mathematics learners’ cognitive engagement with recorded lecture videos

The use of recorded lecture videos (RLVs) in mathematics instruction continues to advance. Prior research at the post-secondary level has indicated a tendency for RLV use in mathematics to be negatively correlated with academic performance, although it is unclear whether this is because regular users are generally weaker mathematics students or because RLV use is somehow depressing student learning. Through the lens of cognitive engagement, a quasi-experimental pre- and post-test design study was conducted to investigate the latter possibility.

Cognitive engagement was operationalized using the Revised Two-Factor Study Process Questionnaire (R-SPQ-2F), which measures learning approaches on two major scales: surface and deep. In two mathematics courses at two universities, in Australia and the UK, participants were administered the questionnaire near the course start and finish. Overall findings were similar in both contexts: a reduction in live lecture attendance coupled with a dependence on RLVs was associated with an increase in surface approaches to learning.

This study has important implications for future pedagogical development and adds to the sense of urgency regarding research into best practices using RLVs in mathematics.