Scalable Video Coding Using Accordion Discrete Wavelet Transform and Tucker Decomposition for Multimedia Applications

Abstract

The digital world demands the transmission and storage of high quality video for streaming and broadcasting applications, the constraints are the network bandwidth and the memory of devices for the various multimedia and scientific applications, the video consists of spatial and temporal redundancies. The objective of any video compression algorithm is to eliminate the redundant information from the video signal during compression for effective transmission and storage. The correlation between the successive frames has not been exploited enough by the current compression algorithms. In this paper, a novel method for video compression is presented. The proposed model, applies the transformation on set of group of pictures (GOP). The high spatial correlation is achieved from the spatial and temporal redundancy of GOP by accordion representation and this helps to bypass the computationally demanding motion compensation step. The core idea of the proposed technique is to apply Tucker Decomposition (TD) on the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) coefficients of the Accordion model of the GOP. We use DWT to separate the video in to different sub-images and TD to efficiently compact the energy of sub-images. The blocking artifacts will be considerably eliminated as the block size is huge. The proposed method attempts to reduce the spatial and temporal redundancies of the video signal to improve the compression ratio, computation time, and PSNR. The experimental results prove that the proposed method is efficient especially in high bit rate and with slow motion videos.