Course Progress

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Course Progress

• Video Compression
• MPEG
• H.261

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Video Compression

• Development of Video Compression Standards
• By ITU alone
• H.261-gt H.263-gtH.263, H.263
• By ITU MPEG
• H.262/MPEG2-gt H.264
• By MPEG alone
• MPEG1 -gt MPEG4

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MPEG

• MPEG1
• first video compression standard from MPEG in
  1993
• Compress video into sequence of image frames
• MPEG2
• Enhanced video compression standard in 1994
• MPEG4
• object based video compression standard in 1999
• Compress video into composing objects

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MPEG

• MPEG7
• an Extensible Markup Language (XML) based
  multimedia content description standard
• MPEG21
• an open multimedia framework standard

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MPEG

• Two Source Intermediate Formats (SIF)
• 352240 pixels/frame, 420 subsampling, 30
  frames/second, progressive scan, 30 mbps
• 352288 pixels/frame, 420 subsampling, 25
  frames/second, progressive scan, 30 mbps
• MPEG-1 compress SIF video with raw data rate 30
  mbps to about 1.1 mbps at VHS VCR quality

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MPEG Compression

• Digital storage media and channels
• Asymmetric applications
• Movies, video-on-demand, education-on-demand,
  Point of sales
• Compression is done once at production
• Frequent use of decompression process
• Symmetric applications
• Video mail, video conferencing
• Similar compression and decompression frequency

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MPEG-2 Compression

• Asymmetric compression
• Balance between intra-frame and inter-frame
  coding
• Two basic techniques
• Inter-frames Block based motion compensation to
  reduce temporal redundancy
• Intra-frame DCT based compression to reduce
  spatial redundancy

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MPEG Structure

• An MPEG stream consists of many Group of Pictures
  (GOP).
• Each GOP consists of 3 types of pictures
  I-frame, P-frame, and B-frame
• I-frame intra-pictures
• Starting points for random access
• Moderately compressed using JPEG
• P-frame predicted pictures
• Coded with a reference to a past picture
• Used as a reference for future predicted pictures
• B-frame bi-directional predicted pictures
• Require past and future reference for prediction
• Highest compression

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Inter-frame Structure

• The sequence of displaying frames are
• P-frames are displayed between I frames
• B-frames are inserted between I/P-frames
• Dependency among frames
• P frames are predicted from the previous I/P
  frame.
• B frames are interpolated from the previous and
  future I/P frames

1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10
time
I B B P B B
P B B I
Predictions
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Sequence of frames

• Due to the dependency among frames, the order of
  frames are changed in transmission and storage.
• Transmission order I frames, P frames, then B
  frames
• Example
• Sequence (IBBPBBPBB) (IBBPBBPBB) (IBB
• Transmit order (PBBPBB)(IBBPBBPBB) (IBB
• (IPB) ratio (126)
• In 25 frames/second, random access provided at
  through 9/25 seconds, about 360 msec.

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I-Frame Encoder
Color Space convertor
Entropy Encoder
Quantizer
FDCT
Compressed I-frame
I-frame
Similar to the JPEG image compression
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P/B-Frame Encoder
Error terms
FDCT
Color Space convertor
Entropy Encoder

Compressed frame
P/B-frame
Motion estimator
RGB?YUV
Reference frames
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Motion Estimation

• Motion compensation to compensate inter-frame
  differences due to motion
• Block matching techniques Find the best matching
  block from the previous frame
• Forward prediction

Previous frame
Current frame
A
Best match
A
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Motion Compensated Interpolation

• Interpolate the blocks from the previous and
  future frames
• Bi-directional prediction

Future frame
Previous frame
Current frame
A
B
C
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MPEG Compression bit rates
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
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MPEG Compression

• Each MPEG video is divided into GOP of I, P, and
  B-frames.
• I frames are independently compressed like JPEG
  images. They are starting points for random
  access.
• P-frames are compressed using motion estimation
  with reference to the previous frames.
• B-frames are compressed using interpolation
  between previous and future I/P-frames
• The frames from the same GOP are stored or
  transmitted in the IPB order.

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MPEG4 System

• System Requirements
• Coded representation of interactive audiovisual
  scenes
• Identification of elementary streams
• Object content information
• User interaction

Source Olivier Avaro, Carsten Herpel Julien
Signès, MPEG4 Tutorial
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Decoding
Network
...
Ex MPEG-2 Transport
Display and Local User Interaction
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Return Channel
Network
TransMux
DAI
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Representation of Multimedia Content

• Identification of Elementary Streams Object
  Descriptor
• Scene Description BIFS
• Animation of the Scene Animation Streams
• Object Content Information OCI
• Identification of Intellectual Property

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Object Descriptor

• Identification of Elementary Streams
• Stream types and decoder configuration,
• Streams identification and location,
• object content description.

• Association between Streams
• Coding dependency between streams,
• Clock dependencies between streams,
• Association between Scene streams and Media
  streams.

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Binary Format for Scenes (BIFS)

• To compose together MPEG-4 media type
• 2D3D, naturalsynthetic, audiovideo,
  storedstreamed
• in the same environment.

• BIFS is based on VRML (Virtual Reality
  Manipulation Language)
• it is a set of nodes to represent the primitive
  scene objects to be composed, the scene graph
  constructs, the behavior and interactivity

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BIFS

• Additionally to VRML, BIFS defines
• 2D capabilities,
• Integration of 2D and 3D,
• Advanced Audio Features,
• a timing model,
• BIFS - Update protocol to modify the scene in
  time,
• BIFS - Animation protocol to animate the scene in
  time,
• a binary encoding for the scene.

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Summary to MPEG4

• A coded representation of interactive audiovisual
  scenes based on composition and rendering
• Identification of elementary streams
• Animate object scenes using object content
  information
• Allow user interaction with return channel

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MPEG7

• Multimedia objects may be described by some
  descriptions called metadata.
• Example ltdurationgt of a video, lttime pointgt
  within an audio, ltauthorgt of an image, ltkeywordgt
  of an object, ltTextAnnotationgt of an object, etc
• Different content creation software/hardware may
  describe the same object type using different
  names and formats.
• ? Incompatibility among different software
• ? Difficult to search/index/compare objects from
  different databases

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MPEG7

• Provide core technologies allowing the
  description of audiovisual data contents
• May include still pictures, graphics, 3D models,
  audio, speech, video, and composition information
• Different granularity in its descriptions to
  allow different levels of discrimination

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MPEG7

• The main elements of the MPEG-7 standard are
• Description tools descriptors that define the
  syntax and semantics of each metadata element
• DDL defines the syntax of the description tools
  and allows the creation of new description
  schemes
• Classification Schema defines a list of typical
  terms used in many applications together with
  their meanings.
• Extensibility supported through MPEG-7 schema
  extensions mechanism
• System tools support binary coded representation
  for efficient storage and transmission.

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MPEG7
Data Definition Language (DDL)
definition
Extension
definition
Classification Schema
MPEG7 document ltMpeg7gt lt/Mpeg7gt
Visual D Type MediaProfile D MediaQuality D
Visual DS Type Segment DS MediaInfo DS
instantiation
Description Scheme
Descriptors
Encoding delivery
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MPEG7
Complete description
Content description
Content management

Content entity
Content abstraction
User description
Creation description
Multimedia content
Semantic description
Summary description

Type derivaion hierarchy

Video
Audio
Image
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MPEG-7 Example

• A list of integer values can be defined as
  follows
• ltsimpleType nameintegerVectorgt
• ltlist itemTypeinteger/gt
• lt/simpleTypegt

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MPEG-7 Example

• All MPEG-7 documents should have the following
  header
• lt?xml version1.0 encodingiso-8859-1?gt
• ltMpeg7 xmlnsurnmpegmpeg7schema2001
  xmlnsxsihttp//www.w3.or/2001/XMLSchema-instanc
  e
• xmlnsmpeg7urnmpegmpeg7schema2001
  xmlnsxmlhttp//www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
  xsischemaLocationurnmpegmpeg7schema2001
  Mpeg7-2001.xsdgt
• lt! Your MPEG-7 content - gt
• lt/Mpeg7gt

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MPEG-21

• Many elements exist to build an infrastructure
  for the delivery and consumption of multimedia
  content
• No big picture to describe how these elements
  relate to each other

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MPEG-21

• MPEG21 defines an open MM framework
• Enable transparent and augment use of MM
  resources across a wide range of networks and
  services
• Cover the entire content delivery chain
• Content creation, production, delivery,
  personalization, consumption, presentation, and
  trade.
• Describes the framework as a generic architecture

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MPEG-21

• MPEG-21 defines
• Digital item a fundamental unit of distribution
  and transaction
• User model the concept of users interacting with
  DIs.

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MPEG-21

• Digital Item (DI)
• a hierarchical container of resources, metadata,
  and other digital item
• User
• User is any entity that interacts in the MPEG-21
  environment or that makes use of a DI.
• E.g. individuals, corporations, consumer can be
  users

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MPEG-21

• Relationship among users and digital items.
• User may use content in many ways (publish,
  deliver, consume, and so on).

Digital item
use
interaction
user
user
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MPEG-21

• Seven key architectural elements
• Digital Item Declaration gives precise
  description of what constitutes a DI.
• Digital Item Identification identifies and
  describes a DI.
• Content management and usage provide interfaces
  and protocols that enable creation, manipulation,
  search, access, storage, and (re)use of content
  across its delivery and consumption chain
• Intellectual Property Management and Protection
  enables DIs and their rights to be persistently
  and reliably managed and protected

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MPEG-21

• Seven key architectural elements (cont.)
• Terminals and networks provide tools that enable
  the interoperable and transparent access to
  content across networks and terminals
• Content representation defines how the media
  resources are represented
• Event reporting supplies the metrics and
  interfaces that enable users to understand
  precisely the performance of all reportable events

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MPEG-21 Example

• The following XML declares the root element DIDL
  and several phto albums are grouped together in a
  DI.
• ltDIDLgt
• ltcontainergt
• ltDescriptorgt
• ltStatement mimeType text/plaingtMy Photo
  Albums in Itemslt/Statementgt
• lt/Descriptorgt
• ltItem idAlbum1gt lt/Itemgt
• ltItem idAlbum2gt lt/Itemgt
• lt/Containergt
• lt/DIDLgt

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ITU

• ITU International Telecommunication Union
• 2 video formats
• Common Intermediate Format (CIF)
• compress video signals in half the resolution of
  BT.601 420 format in both horizontal and
  vertical dimensions.
• 352288 pixels, 420 subsampling, 30 frames
  progressive scan, 37 mbps.

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ITU

• 2 video formats
• QCIF
• Half the resolution of CIF in both horizontal and
  vertical directions.
• 176144 pixels/frame, 420 subsampling, 30
  frames/second, progressive scan, 9 mbps.
• Both video formats are non-interlaced and
  developed for video conferencing applications.

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H.261

• ISDN (integrated service digital network) lines
  only allow transmission rates in multiples of 64
  kbps.
• H.261 compress the CIF and QCIF to p64kbps,
  where p 1, 2, , 30.
• Compress a CIF signal with a raw data rate of 37
  mbps to 128-384 kbps with reasonable quality.
• Compress QCIF signal with a raw data rate of 9
  mbps to 64-128 kbps.

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H.261 Encoder

• Features of a H.261 encoder
• H.261 subdivides the image into macroblocks of
  size 16x16 pels
• A macroblock consists of 4 luminance and 2
  chrominance blocks (1 for Cb and 1 for Cr)
• Each macroblock is transformed using a 8x8 DCT
  for each block to reduce spatial redundancy
• Uses the Differential Pulse Code Modulation
  (DPCM) to exploit temporal redundancy
• Uses unidirectional integer-pel forward motion
  compensation

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H.261 Encoder
p
Mux
Coding Control
t
qz
q
Q
T
Video in

Q-1
Channel
T-1

d
P
F
f
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H.261 Encoder

• T Transform
• Q Quantizer
• P Picture memory with motion estimator and
  motion compensation unit
• F Loop filter

• p flag for Intra/Inter
• t flag for transmitted or not
• qz quantizer indication
• q quantizing index for transform coefficients
• d motion vector
• f switching on/off of the loop filter

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H.261 Encoder

• Each macroblock is transformed using a 8x8 DCT
  (block T)
• DCT coefficients are
• scanned using a zigzag scan
• quantized
• converted into a pair of symbols
• Encoded using variable length codewords

DC AC01 AC07
AC70
AC77
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H.261 Encoder

• Two quantizers for DCT coefficients (block Q)
• A uniform quantizer with stepsize of 8 is used in
  intra-mode for DC coeff.
• A nearly uniform midtread quantizer with stepsize
  of 2 to 62 for AC coeff.

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H.261 Encoder

• A nearly unifom midtread quantizer with input
  amplitude x and output amplitude Q(x).
• The dead zone, from -T to T, is quantized to
  zero. Otherwise, the stepsize is uniform.
• The dead zone avoids coding many small coeff.
  that would mainly contribute to coding noise.

-T
T
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H.261 Encoder

• Each symbol includes two fields
• the number of coefficients that are quantized to
  zero
• the amplitude of the current nonzero coefficient.
  
• The symbols are encoded using Variable Length
  Codewords (VLC) like Huffman coding.
• The encoder sends an End of Block (EOB) after the
  last nonzero coefficient.
• E.g. The quantized DCT coefficients
• 5 0 0 2 3 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
  are converted into(0, 5), (2, 2), (0, 3), (2,
  4), (6, 1), EOB.

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H.261 Encoder

• Uses unidirectional integer-pel forward motion
  compensation (block P)
• Uses a 2D loop filter to low-pass the
  motion-compensated prediction signal (block F)
• Decreases the prediction error and the blockiness
  of the prediction image

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H.261 Encoder

• The encoder transmits mainly 2 classes of
  information for each macroblock
• DCT coefficients from the transform of the
  prediction error signal
• Motion vectors that are estimated by the motion
  estimator.
• Motion vectors are limited to 16 pels.

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H.261 Encoder

• In intra-mode, the bit stream contains transform
  coefficients for each block.
• In inter-mode, the encoder has a choice of
  sending
• a differentially coded motion vector (MVD) with
  or without the loop filter on.
• a coded block pattern (CBP) to specify the blocks
  for which transform coefficients will be
  transmitted