Video transcoding optimization based on input perceptual quality

Yilin Wang; Hossein Talebi; Feng Yang; Joong Gon Yim; Neil Birkbeck; Balu Adsumilli; Peyman Milanfar

doi:10.1117/12.2569332

21 August 2020 Video transcoding optimization based on input perceptual quality

Yilin Wang, Hossein Talebi, Feng Yang, Joong Gon Yim, Neil Birkbeck, Balu Adsumilli, Peyman Milanfar

Proceedings Volume 11510, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIII; 1151015 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2569332
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Today's video transcoding pipelines choose transcoding parameters based on rate-distortion curves, which mainly focus on the relative quality difference between original and transcoded videos. By investigating the recently released YouTube UGC dataset, we found that human subjects were more tolerant to changes in low quality videos than in high quality ones, which suggests that current transcoding frameworks can be further optimized by considering perceptual quality of the input. In this paper, an efficient machine learning metric is proposed to detect low quality inputs, whose bitrate can be further reduced without sacrificing perceptual quality. To evaluate the impact of our method on perceptual quality, we conducted a crowd-sourcing subjective experiment, and provided a methodology to evaluate statistical significance among different treatments. The results show that the proposed quality guided transcoding framework is able to reduce the average bitrate up to 5% with insignificant perceptual quality degradation.

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Yilin Wang, Hossein Talebi, Feng Yang, Joong Gon Yim, Neil Birkbeck, Balu Adsumilli, and Peyman Milanfar "Video transcoding optimization based on input perceptual quality", Proc. SPIE 11510, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIII, 1151015 (21 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2569332

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