Group Testing for Video Compression

Hong and Ladner [6] used context-based group testing to implement bitplane coding for image compression. We extend this technique to video coding, by replacing the quantization and entropy-coding stages, of an H.263 standard video coder, with bit-plane coding. We experiment with ways to improve baseline coder, including different classification schemes and cross-frame adaptive coding. Our results indicate that our new coder, GTV (Group Testing for Video), significantly outperforms H.263 at medium to high bit-rates (300+ kbps) on most sequences, while allowing very precise rate scalability.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DCC
• Authors: Gidon Shavit, Michael F. Ringenburg, Jeff West, Richard E. Ladner, Eve A. Riskin
• Keywords: Baseline Coder, Computer Graphics, Cross-frame Adaptive Coding, DCC 2004, Standard Video Coder