Bitrate Ladder Prediction Methods for Adaptive Video Streaming: A Review and Benchmark

A Telili, W Hamidouche, H Amirpour, SA Fezza… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has emerged as a widely adopted approach for over-the-
top (OTT) video streaming services, due to its ability to deliver a seamless streaming …

Efficient bitrate ladder construction for content-optimized adaptive video streaming

AV Katsenou, J Sole, DR Bull - IEEE Open Journal of Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the challenges faced by many video providers is the heterogeneity of network
specifications, user requirements, and content compression performance. The universal …

Content-gnostic bitrate ladder prediction for adaptive video streaming

AV Katsenou, J Sole, DR Bull - 2019 Picture Coding …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A challenge that many video providers face is the heterogeneity of networks and display
devices for streaming, as well as dealing with a wide variety of content with different …

VMAF-based bitrate ladder estimation for adaptive streaming

AV Katsenou, F Zhang, K Swanson… - 2021 Picture Coding …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In HTTP Adaptive Streaming, video content is conventionally encoded by adapting its spatial
resolution and quantization level to best match the prevailing network state and display …

ViSTRA2: Video coding using spatial resolution and effective bit depth adaptation

F Zhang, M Afonso, DR Bull - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a new video compression framework (ViSTRA2) which exploits adaptation of
spatial resolution and effective bit depth, down-sampling these parameters at the encoder …

Perceptually-inspired super-resolution of compressed videos

D Ma, M Afonso, F Zhang… - Applications of Digital …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Spatial resolution adaptation is a technique which has often been employed in video
compression to enhance coding efficiency. This approach encodes a lower resolution …

Benchmarking learning-based bitrate ladder prediction methods for adaptive video streaming

A Telili, W Hamidouche, SA Fezza… - 2022 Picture Coding …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is increasingly adopted by over-the-top (OTT)-based video
streaming services, it allows clients to dynamically switch among various stream …

GAN-based effective bit depth adaptation for perceptual video compression

D Ma, F Zhang, DR Bull - 2020 IEEE International Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resolution and effective bit depth (EBD) adaptation have been recently utilised in video
compression to improve coding efficiency. This type of approach dynamically reduces …

Enhanced video compression based on effective bit depth adaptation

F Zhang, M Afonso, DR Bull - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based effective bit depth
adaptation approach (EBDA-CNN) for video compression. It applies effective bit depth down …

Study of compression statistics and prediction of rate-distortion curves for video texture

AV Katsenou, M Afonso, DR Bull - Signal Processing: Image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Encoding textural content remains a challenge for current standardised video codecs. It is
therefore beneficial to understand video textures in terms of both their spatio-temporal …