Fractional compensation for spatial scalable video coding

This paper proposes a novel fractional compensation approach for spatial scalable video coding. It simultaneously exploits inter layer correlation and intra layer correlation by learning-based mapping. Instead of using an enhancement layer reconstruction as an entire reference, a set of reference pairs are generated from high-frequency components of both base layer and enhancement layer reconstructions at previous frame. The reference set, which consists of lowresolution and high-resolution patches, can be generated in both encoder and decoder by on-line learning. During the encoding of enhancement layer, a prediction is first gotten from base layer, from which low-resolution patches are extracted. These patches are then used as indices to find the matched high-resolution patches from the reference set. Finally, the prediction enhanced by the high-resolution patches is used for coding. The proposed approach does not need any motion bits. With our proposed FC approach, the performance ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu
• Keywords: Base Layer, Enhancement Layer, Enhancement Layer Reconstructions, ICMCS 2009, Multimedia