Progressive Dictionary Learning With Hierarchical Predictive Structure for Low Bit-Rate Scalable Video Coding

Dictionary learning has emerged as a promising alternative to the conventional hybrid coding framework. However, the rigid structure of sequential training and prediction degrades its performance in scalable video coding. This paper proposes a progressive dictionary learning framework with hierarchi...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on image processing Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 2972 - 2987
Main Authors: Dai, Wenrui, Shen, Yangmei, Xiong, Hongkai, Jiang, Xiaoqian, Zou, Junni, Taubman, David
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States IEEE 01.06.2017
Subjects:
Dictionaries
Image reconstruction
progressive dictionary learning
Radio frequency
Scalability
Scalable video coding
sparse representation
Training
Trajectory
Video coding
ISSN:1057-7149, 1941-0042, 1941-0042
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Summary:Dictionary learning has emerged as a promising alternative to the conventional hybrid coding framework. However, the rigid structure of sequential training and prediction degrades its performance in scalable video coding. This paper proposes a progressive dictionary learning framework with hierarchical predictive structure for scalable video coding, especially in low bitrate region. For pyramidal layers, sparse representation based on spatio-temporal dictionary is adopted to improve the coding efficiency of enhancement layers with a guarantee of reconstruction performance. The overcomplete dictionary is trained to adaptively capture local structures along motion trajectories as well as exploit the correlations between the neighboring layers of resolutions. Furthermore, progressive dictionary learning is developed to enable the scalability in temporal domain and restrict the error propagation in a closed-loop predictor. Under the hierarchical predictive structure, online learning is leveraged to guarantee the training and prediction performance with an improved convergence rate. To accommodate with the state-of-the-art scalable extension of H.264/AVC and latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), standardized codec cores are utilized to encode the base and enhancement layers. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the latest scalable extension of HEVC and HEVC simulcast over extensive test sequences with various resolutions.
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ISSN:1057-7149
1941-0042
1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2017.2692882