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An experimental analysis of DCT-based approaches for fine-grained multiresolution video

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In the future, video-streaming systems will have to support adaptation over an extremely large range of display requirements (e.g., 90×60 to 1920×1080). This paper presents the architectural trade-offs of bandwidth efficiency, computational cost, and storage cost to support fine-grained multiresolution video over a large set of resolutions. While several techniques have been proposed, they have focused mainly on limited spatial resolution adaptation. In this paper, we examine the ability of current techniques to support wide-range spatial resolution adaptation. Based upon experiments with real video, we propose an architecture that can support wide-range adaptation efficiently. Our results indicate that multiple encodings with limited spatial adaptation from each encoding provide good trade-offs between efficient coding and the ability to adapt the stream to various resolutions.

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    Jie Huang, Wu-chi Feng & Jonathan Walpole

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Jie Huang received her BS in computer and communications and MS in computer science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1992 and 1995 respectively, where she was an assistant professor from 1995 to 1999. Since 1999, she has been pursuing her PhD at OGI school of Science and Engineering at Oregon Health and Science University (from 1999 to 2004) and Portland State University (since 2004). Her research interests include multimedia networking and software engineering.

Wu-chi Feng received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1996. ~His research interests include multimedia systems, video-based sensor networking technologies, and networking. ~He currently serves as an Editor for the Springer-ACM Multimedia Systems Journal. ~He also serves on the national Orion Cyberinfrastructure Advisory committee.

Jonathan Walpole received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Lancaster University, UK. He is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Portland State University. Prior to joining PSU he was a Professor and Director of the Systems Software Laboratory at the OGI School of Science and Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University. His research interests are in operating systems, networking, distributed systems and multimedia computing. He has pioneered research in adaptive resource management and the integration of application and system-level quality of service management. He has also done leading edge research on dynamic specialization for enhanced performance, survivability and evolvability of large software systems. His research on distributed multimedia systems began in 1988, and in the early 1990s he lead the development of one of the first QoS-adaptive Internet streaming video players.

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Huang, J., Feng, Wc. & Walpole, J. An experimental analysis of DCT-based approaches for fine-grained multiresolution video. Multimedia Systems 11, 513–531 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-006-0036-y

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