Energy-efficient Adaptive Video Streaming with Latency-Aware Dynamic Resolution Encoding

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Main Authors: Menon, Vignesh V, Premkumar, Amritha, Rajendran, Prajit T, Wieckowski, Adam, Bross, Benjamin, Timmerer, Christian, Marpe, Detlev
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author Menon, Vignesh V
Premkumar, Amritha
Rajendran, Prajit T
Wieckowski, Adam
Bross, Benjamin
Timmerer, Christian
Marpe, Detlev
author_facet Menon, Vignesh V
Premkumar, Amritha
Rajendran, Prajit T
Wieckowski, Adam
Bross, Benjamin
Timmerer, Christian
Marpe, Detlev
contents Traditional per-title encoding schemes aim to optimize encoding resolutions to deliver the highest perceptual quality for each representation. However, keeping the encoding time within an acceptable threshold for a smooth user experience is important to reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption on encoding servers in video streaming applications. Toward this realization, we introduce an encoding latency-a ware dynamic resolution encoding scheme (LADRE) for adaptive video streaming applications. LADRE determines the encoding resolution for each target bitrate by utilizing a random forest-based prediction model for every video segment based on spatiotemporal features and the acceptable target latency. Experimental results show that LADRE achieves an overall average quality improvement of 0.58 dB PSNR and 0.43 dB XPSNR while maintaining the same bitrate, compared to the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) bitrate ladder encoding of 200 s segments using the VVenC encoder, when the encoding latency for each representation is set to remain below the 200 s threshold. This is accompanied by an 84.17 % reduction in overall encoding energy consumption.
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spellingShingle Energy-efficient Adaptive Video Streaming with Latency-Aware Dynamic Resolution Encoding
Menon, Vignesh V
Premkumar, Amritha
Rajendran, Prajit T
Wieckowski, Adam
Bross, Benjamin
Timmerer, Christian
Marpe, Detlev
Multimedia
Traditional per-title encoding schemes aim to optimize encoding resolutions to deliver the highest perceptual quality for each representation. However, keeping the encoding time within an acceptable threshold for a smooth user experience is important to reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption on encoding servers in video streaming applications. Toward this realization, we introduce an encoding latency-a ware dynamic resolution encoding scheme (LADRE) for adaptive video streaming applications. LADRE determines the encoding resolution for each target bitrate by utilizing a random forest-based prediction model for every video segment based on spatiotemporal features and the acceptable target latency. Experimental results show that LADRE achieves an overall average quality improvement of 0.58 dB PSNR and 0.43 dB XPSNR while maintaining the same bitrate, compared to the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) bitrate ladder encoding of 200 s segments using the VVenC encoder, when the encoding latency for each representation is set to remain below the 200 s threshold. This is accompanied by an 84.17 % reduction in overall encoding energy consumption.
title Energy-efficient Adaptive Video Streaming with Latency-Aware Dynamic Resolution Encoding
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15346