8 papers
DQ-Ladder: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Bitrate Ladder for Adaptive Video Streaming
Reza Farahani, Zoha Azimi, Vignesh V Menon +4
Adaptive streaming of segmented video over HTTP typically relies on a predefined set of bitrate-resolution pairs, known as a bitrate ladder. However, fixed ladders often overlook v…
Content-Driven Frame-Level Bit Prediction for Rate Control in Versatile Video Coding
Amritha Premkumar, Prajit T Rajendran, Vignesh V Menon +1
Rate control allocates bits efficiently across frames to meet a target bitrate while maintaining quality. Conventional two-pass rate control (2pRC) in Versatile Video Coding (VVC)…
Multi-Objective Pareto-Front Optimization for Efficient Adaptive VVC Streaming
Angeliki Katsenou, Vignesh V. Menon, Guoda Laurinaviciute +2
Adaptive video streaming has facilitated improved video streaming over the past years. A balance among coding performance objectives such as bitrate, video quality, and decoding co…
Predicting Encoding Energy from Low-Pass Anchors for Green Video Streaming
Zoha Azimi, Reza Farahani, Vignesh V Menon +1
Video streaming now represents the dominant share of Internet traffic, as ever-higher-resolution content is distributed across a growing range of heterogeneous devices to sustain u…
Block-Partitioning Strategies for Accelerated Multi-rate Encoding in Adaptive VVC Streaming
Vignesh V Menon, Adam Wieckowski, Yiquin Liu +2
The demand for efficient multi-rate encoding techniques has surged with the increasing prevalence of ultra-high-definition (UHD) video content, particularly in adaptive streaming s…
ICME 2025 Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement Grand Challenge
Yixu Chen, Bowen Chen, Hai Wei +16
This paper reports IEEE International Conference on Multimedia \& Expo (ICME) 2025 Grand Challenge on Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement. With the rapid developmen…