EP2011340A2 - Procede et dispositif de codage de donnees en un flux scalable - Google Patents
Procede et dispositif de codage de donnees en un flux scalableInfo
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- the invention relates to the encoding, transmission and decoding of scalable video signals.
- the invention proposes to improve the existing scalable video extraction and decoding algorithms, in particular that of MPEG4-SVC, for decoding at a given bit rate and spatio-temporal resolution. More specifically, we are positioned in a context of scalable video coding based on a multiple temporal decomposition with motion compensation and layer representation with inter-layer prediction.
- the same video sequence may be coded twice to generate 256Kb / s A stream at QCIF resolution for the PDA and 512kb / s B stream and super VGA resolution for the PC.
- we must transport the two flows A and B for a total flow of A + B (768 kb / s). So we see that this solution is suboptimal in terms of the efficiency of the representation since the same information (those corresponding to the flow of lower bit rate and resolution A) are encoded several times (in stream A and in stream B).
- this method requires knowing in advance the characteristics of all potential customers.
- the first generation of these scalable algorithms did not prevail because of a sub-optimality of compression: the scalable compressed stream (B 'in our example) is generally inferior in quality to the same non-scalable compressed stream (ie in our example: Q (B') ⁇ Q (B)) for the same rate of 512kb / s).
- Such coders are very useful for all applications for which the generation of a single compressed stream, organized in several layers of Scalability, can be used by several customers with terminals of different characteristics. For example:
- target terminals UMTS, ADSL PC, ADSL TV .
- the JSVM MPEG model is described in the document "Joint Scalable Video Model JSVM-3", J. Reichel, M. Wien, H. Schwarz, JVTP202, JuIy 2005, Poznan. .
- the model recently adopted by MPEG-4 SVC (“Scalable Video Coding” for “scalable video coding”) is based on a scalable encoder based on Advanced Video Coding (AVC) -based solutions for "advanced video coding”. ). It is a scalable video coder with inter-layer prediction and bidirectional prediction temporal decomposition (B-images). This new standard will be able to provide scalable medium grain streams in time, space, and quality.
- the invention is an improvement of the coder / decoder of the JSVM according to the prior art.
- the object of the invention is to indicate in a simple way, that is to say using only the high level information (ie located in the headers of the NAL units), if a NAL unit of enhancement in quality is coded in progressive mode or not (ie can be truncated during an adaptation operation of a video stream).
- a NAL unit of enhancement in quality is coded in progressive mode or not (ie can be truncated during an adaptation operation of a video stream).
- the progressive quantization coding approach offers the advantage of being able to truncate the NAL units coding this information and thus to propose a gradual evolution of the SNR quality.
- the second coding approach is less interesting for a truncation operation, since it leads to an enhancement in non-uniform quality on the image.
- the invention proposes a signaling method of the type of coding used for an enhancement in SNR quality proposed by a NAL unit SVC. More precisely, for each NAL unit of this type, it will be indicated whether it can be truncated or not.
- This signaling of the type of coding then makes it possible for a high-level parser with a limited available processing power, to be able to identify simply whether an information truncation mechanism can be applied to the NAL unit in question. This results in the insertion in the header information of a NAL unit SVC of a bit defining whether this NAL unit can be truncated or not.
- the indication of the truncation of a NAL unit SVC is carried out using the bit associated with the "reserved bit" syntax element available in the NAL unit SVC header.
- the truncation marking is not directly related to the type of slice used.
- the invention also relates to a device for encoding data in a scalable flow organized in units, characterized in that it comprises means for indicating in the header of a NAL unit SVC whether this NAL unit can be truncated or not when an adaptation operation of the scalable flow considered.
- the invention also relates to a computer program product comprising program instructions for executing the preceding coding method.
- the invention also relates to a signal comprising data in a scalable flow organized in units, characterized in that it comprises information in the header of a NAL unit SVC to indicate whether this NAL unit can be truncated or not when an adaptation operation of the scalable flow considered.
- FIG. 1 represents a scalable encoder based on solutions of the AVC type
- FIG. 2 represents the general structure of the SVC stream
- FIG. 3 represents the format of the NAL unit headers in the current version of SVC;
- FIG. 4 represents a variant of the NAL unit headers SVC,
- FIG. 5 illustrates the syntax associated with a header of a NAL unit SVC
- FIG. 6 illustrates the syntax associated with a header of a NAL unit SVC according to the invention.
- the scalable encoder based on a solution of the AVC type is shown schematically in FIG.
- the prediction residue is encoded up to a rate R_ri_max which corresponds to the maximum rate that can be decoded for the resolution ri.
- the progressive coding technique used in the JSVM is progressive quantization. This technique consists of quantifying the different coefficients with a first coarse quantization step. Then, the different coefficients are reconstructed and the difference between the value of the coefficient and the quantified value is calculated. This difference is then quantized with a second finer quantization step. This is done iteratively with a certain number of quantization steps. At each quantization step, the quantized coefficients are coded in two passes. a signifiance pass which encodes the new signifying coefficients, those which have not been coded at the preceding quantization step. For these new coefficients, we code the sign of the coefficient and its value.
- refinement pass that refines / encodes the coefficients that were already significant at the preceding quantization step. For these coefficients, we code the value +1 or -1 of refinement.
- the coefficients are further traversed in a particular order through the blocks constituting an image so that, when truncating the information packet attached to this enhancement in SNR quality, the increment in quality is pretty much well distributed on the image.
- the coding of the coefficients is done in several passes on the different blocks constituting an image; at each coding pass, only a limited number of coefficients are coded for each block.
- This type of NAL unit can be truncated before decoding.
- CGS (Layer Coding) mode is characterized by:
- This type of NAL unit can not be truncated before decoding.
- the general structure is described with reference to FIG. 2.
- the SVC stream is organized into access units (AUs) each corresponding at a given instant and comprising one or more access units for the network ( packet) or NALUs (Network Abstraction Layer Units).
- Each NALU, or NAL unit is associated with an image resulting from spatio-temporal decomposition, a level of spatial resolution, and a level of coding quality.
- This structure in NALUs makes it possible to adapt the bit rate and / or temporal space resolution by eliminating the NALUs with too large spatial resolution, or with too long a time frequency or with too much coding quality.
- Each NALU encapsulates an image slice.
- a slice is a set of macroblocks contained in an image.
- NAL unit type 20 or 21 Each NAL unit specific to SVC (NAL unit type 20 or 21) has a byte of NAL unit type byte (AVC) and one or two bytes of SVC header containing the fields (P 1 D 1 T 1 Q ) (Priorityjd, Dependency_id, Temporaljevel, Qualityjevel).
- the Priorityjd field indicates a priority level of a NAL unit that can be used to guide quality adaptation.
- the Dependencyjd field allows to know the level of spatial resolution of a hierarchical coding layer. This level can also control a level of enhancement in SNR quality or time enhancement in the context of layer coding (i.e. for a number of discrete operating points).
- the Temporaljevel field is used to indicate the temporal level indicating the frame rate.
- the Qualityjevel field is used to indicate the progressive quantization level, and thus to control the rate / quality and / or complexity.
- a slice is a set of macroblocks contained in an image. Several slices can be found in an image (typically to limit the size of the NAL units, to limit the impact of a packet loss, to carry out adaptive coding by image region, etc.).
- SNR quality enhancement information is encoded in NAL units of type 20 or 21, having a non-zero qualityjevel, and using the following "slice_type":
- FIG. 5 illustrates the header of a NAL unit SVC which is defined by the following syntax: the "simple_priohty_id" field, coded on 6 bits, makes it possible to signal a priority information for the NAL unit considered.
- This priority information can be used by a video stream adaptation tool when performing an adaptation of the video stream (for example by keeping only the NAL units having a sufficient priority level).
- the discardable_flag field coded on a bit, indicates whether the NAL unit considered is useful in the inter-layer coding (inter layer prediction in the SVC vocabulary) of an upper layer (for example corresponding to a higher level of spatial resolution) .
- the temporaljevel field indicates the time level associated with the considered NAL unit.
- coding layer can correspond to the different levels of spatial resolution during scalability in resolution, but also to the different layers of SNR quality (or even temporal) during a layer coding.
- the qualityjevel field coded on 2 bits, corresponds to the level of enhancement in SNR quality coded inside a layer
- the invention proposes in a particular embodiment to reassign the reserved_reserved bit.
- the indication of possibility of the truncation of a NAL unit SVC is carried out by using the bit associated with the syntax element "reserved_bit" available in the header of NAL unit SVC. This field is renamed "tru ncation_flag":
- the considered NAL unit may be truncated during an adaptation operation of the video stream
- the considered NAL unit can not be truncated during an adaptation operation of the video stream.
- the invention proposes not to directly bind the marking of the possibility of truncation to the type of slice used.
- SVC SVC
- a NAL unit corresponding to a slice of type PR can be truncated
- a NAL unit corresponding to a slice of type E1, EP or EB can not be truncated.
- NAL unit coded in progressive mode can not be cut off.
- this additional bit is inserted into an additional NAL unit in the AU.
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