Video streaming with SHVC to HEVC transcoding

Srinivas Gudumasu; Yuwen He; Yan Ye; Xiaoyu Xiu

doi:10.1117/12.2186866

22 September 2015 Video streaming with SHVC to HEVC transcoding

Srinivas Gudumasu, Yuwen He, Yan Ye, Xiaoyu Xiu

Proceedings Volume 9599, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII; 959917 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186866
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient Scalable High efficiency Video Coding (SHVC) to High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) transcoder, which can reduce the transcoding complexity significantly, and provide a desired trade-off between the transcoding complexity and the transcoded video quality. To reduce the transcoding complexity, some of coding information, such as coding unit (CU) depth, prediction mode, merge mode, motion vector information, intra direction information and transform unit (TU) depth information, in the SHVC bitstream are mapped and transcoded to single layer HEVC bitstream. One major difficulty in transcoding arises when trying to reuse the motion information from SHVC bitstream since motion vectors referring to inter-layer reference (ILR) pictures cannot be reused directly in transcoding. Reusing motion information obtained from ILR pictures for those prediction units (PUs) will reduce the complexity of the SHVC transcoder greatly but a significant reduction in the quality of the picture is observed. Pictures corresponding to the intra refresh pictures in the base layer (BL) will be coded as P pictures in enhancement layer (EL) in the SHVC bitstream; and directly reusing the intra information from the BL for transcoding will not get a good coding efficiency. To solve these problems, various transcoding technologies are proposed. The proposed technologies offer different trade-offs between transcoding speed and transcoding quality. They are implemented on the basis of reference software SHM-6.0 and HM-14.0 for the two layer spatial scalability configuration. Simulations show that the proposed SHVC software transcoder reduces the transcoding complexity by up to 98-99% using low complexity transcoding mode when compared with cascaded re-encoding method. The transcoder performance at various bitrates with different transcoding modes are compared in terms of transcoding speed and transcoded video quality.

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Srinivas Gudumasu, Yuwen He, Yan Ye, and Xiaoyu Xiu "Video streaming with SHVC to HEVC transcoding", Proc. SPIE 9599, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII, 959917 (22 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186866

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