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As an extension of H.264/AVC, Scalable Video Coding (SVC) provides the ability to adapt to heterogeneous requirements. However, transcoding between SVC and AVC becomes necessary due to the existence of legacy AVC-based systems. The straightforward full re-encoding method requires great computational cost, and fast SVC-to-AVC spatial transcoding techniques have not been thoroughly investigated yet. This paper proposes a low-complexity SVC-to-AVC spatial transcoder in hybrid domain (pixel domain & transform domain) with drift compensation. In the pixel-domain transcoding, a fast re-encoding method is proposed based on mode mapping and MV refinement. In the transform-domain transcoding, the quantized transform coefficients together with motion data are reused directly to avoid re-quantization loss. At last, the drift problem in proposed transcoder is solved. Simulation results show that proposed transcoder achieves averagely 96.4% time reduction compared with the full re-encoding method, and outperforms the reference methods in coding efficiency.
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Sun, L., Liu, Z., Ikenaga, T. (2012). A Videoconferencing-Oriented Hybrid-Domain H.264/SVC to H.264/AVC Spatial Transcoder. In: Lin, W., et al. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2012. PCM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34778-8_12
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