Publications by authors named "Athanasios Leontaris"
Compression efficiency and delay tradeoffs for hierarchical B-pictures and pulsed-quality frames.
IEEE Trans Image Process
July 2007
Real-time video applications require tight bounds on end-to-end delay. Hierarchical bidirectional prediction requires buffering frames in the encoder input buffer, thereby contributing to encoder input delay. Long-term frame prediction with pulsed quality requires buffering at the encoder output, increasing the output buffer delay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuality evaluation of motion-compensated edge artifacts in compressed video.
IEEE Trans Image Process
April 2007
Little attention has been paid to an impairment common in motion-compensated video compression: the addition of high-frequency (HF) energy as motion compensation displaces blocking artifacts off block boundaries. In this paper, we employ an energy-based approach to measure this motion-compensated edge artifact, using both compressed bitstream information and decoded pixels. We evaluate the performance of our proposed metric, along with several blocking and blurring metrics, on compressed video in two ways.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe address the problem of enhancement layer drift estimation for fine granular scalable video. An optimal per-pixel drift estimation algorithm is introduced. The encoder assumes that there is some truncation of the enhancement layer, which does not allow the enhancement layer reference to be properly reconstructed, and the encoder recursively estimates the associated drift and chooses coding modes accordingly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVideo compression for lossy packet networks with mode switching and a dual-frame buffer.
IEEE Trans Image Process
July 2004
Video codecs that use motion compensation benefit greatly from the development of algorithms for near-optimal intra/inter mode switching within a rate-distortion framework. A separate development has involved the use of multiple-frame prediction, in which more than one past reference frame is available for motion estimation. In this paper, we show that using a dual-frame buffer (one short-term frame and one long-term frame available for prediction) together with intra/inter mode switching improves the compression performance of the coder.
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