Rate control is one of the key factors influencing the multi-view video transmission.However,there is not a rate control algorithm in the existing Joint Multi-view Video Coding Model.In this paper,an efficient rate co...Rate control is one of the key factors influencing the multi-view video transmission.However,there is not a rate control algorithm in the existing Joint Multi-view Video Coding Model.In this paper,an efficient rate control algorithm and a bit allocation strategy for multi-view video coding are proposed.In order to obtain the consistent view quality,a bit allocation model based on the Lagrange optimum algorithm is firstly proposed.Secondly,considering the encoding statistical characteristics of different view types,a view weighting factor is introduced,and it will help improve the precision of bit allocation among views.Compared with the fixed QP control strategy,experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently control the bit rate and obtain more consistent views,with video visual quality improved.展开更多
As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached Shannon capacity,semantic communication is emerging as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of communi...As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached Shannon capacity,semantic communication is emerging as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of communication performance.However,it is still unsettled on how to represent semantic information and characterise the theoretical limits of semantic-oriented compression and transmission.In this paper,we consider a semantic source which is characterised by a set of correlated random variables whose joint probabilistic distribution can be described by a Bayesian network.We give the information-theoretic limit on the lossless compression of the semantic source and introduce a low complexity encoding method by exploiting the conditional independence.We further characterise the limits on lossy compression of the semantic source and the upper and lower bounds of the rate-distortion function.We also investigate the lossy compression of the semantic source with two-sided information at the encoder and decoder,and obtain the corresponding rate distortion function.We prove that the optimal code of the semantic source is the combination of the optimal codes of each conditional independent set given the side information.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 61071166,No. 61001152 and No. 61071091
文摘Rate control is one of the key factors influencing the multi-view video transmission.However,there is not a rate control algorithm in the existing Joint Multi-view Video Coding Model.In this paper,an efficient rate control algorithm and a bit allocation strategy for multi-view video coding are proposed.In order to obtain the consistent view quality,a bit allocation model based on the Lagrange optimum algorithm is firstly proposed.Secondly,considering the encoding statistical characteristics of different view types,a view weighting factor is introduced,and it will help improve the precision of bit allocation among views.Compared with the fixed QP control strategy,experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently control the bit rate and obtain more consistent views,with video visual quality improved.
基金partly supported by NSFC under grant No.62293481,No.62201505partly by the SUTDZJU IDEA Grant(SUTD-ZJU(VP)202102)。
文摘As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached Shannon capacity,semantic communication is emerging as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of communication performance.However,it is still unsettled on how to represent semantic information and characterise the theoretical limits of semantic-oriented compression and transmission.In this paper,we consider a semantic source which is characterised by a set of correlated random variables whose joint probabilistic distribution can be described by a Bayesian network.We give the information-theoretic limit on the lossless compression of the semantic source and introduce a low complexity encoding method by exploiting the conditional independence.We further characterise the limits on lossy compression of the semantic source and the upper and lower bounds of the rate-distortion function.We also investigate the lossy compression of the semantic source with two-sided information at the encoder and decoder,and obtain the corresponding rate distortion function.We prove that the optimal code of the semantic source is the combination of the optimal codes of each conditional independent set given the side information.
