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JPEG2000-Compatible Scalable Scheme for Wavelet-Based Video Coding

Thomas André*, Marco Cagnazzo, Marc Antonini and Michel Barlaud

Author Affiliations

I3S Laboratory, UMR 6070/CNRS, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Bâtiment Algorithmes/Euclide B, 2000 route des Lucioles, BP121, Sophia-Antipolis Cedex 06903, France

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EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2007, 2007:030852 doi:10.1155/2007/30852


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Received:14 August 2006
Revisions received:5 December 2006
Accepted:16 January 2007
Published:13 March 2007

© 2007 André et al.

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We present a simple yet efficient scalable scheme for wavelet-based video coders, able to provide on-demand spatial, temporal, and SNR scalability, and fully compatible with the still-image coding standard JPEG2000. Whereas hybrid video coders must undergo significant changes in order to support scalability, our coder only requires a specific wavelet filter for temporal analysis, as well as an adapted bit allocation procedure based on models of rate-distortion curves. Our study shows that scalably encoded sequences have the same or almost the same quality than nonscalably encoded ones, without a significant increase in complexity. A full compatibility with Motion JPEG2000, which tends to be a serious candidate for the compression of high-definition video sequences, is ensured.

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