Water Ring Scan Method for FGS Video Coding Schemes

Gwang-Hoon PARK
Kyuheon KIM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.2    pp.835-840
Publication Date: 2005/02/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.2.835
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Multimedia Systems for Communications" Multimedia Systems for Communications
Keyword: 
multimedia system,  MPEG,  fine granularity scalability,  scalable video coding,  video streaming,  

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Summary: 
This paper introduces the water ring scan method especially designed for the scalable video coding schemes such as fine granularity scalabilities (FGS) on the basis of MPEG-4 part-2 and the H.264. The proposed scanning method can improve the subjective quality of the decoded video by most-preferentially encoding, transmitting and decoding the image information of the region of interest. From the various simulation results of FGS coding schemes with MPEG-4 part 2 and H.264, the proposed scanning method can improve the subjective picture quality about 0.5 dB 3.5 dB better than the widely used raster scan order, especially on the region of interest, without significant loss of the quality in the left-over region.