Optimizing Mobile-Friendly Viewport Prediction for Live 360-Degree Video Streaming

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Lei, Long, Tao, Xu, Weizhen, Cui, Laizhong, Liu, Jiangchuan
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author Zhang, Lei
Long, Tao
Xu, Weizhen
Cui, Laizhong
Liu, Jiangchuan
author_facet Zhang, Lei
Long, Tao
Xu, Weizhen
Cui, Laizhong
Liu, Jiangchuan
contents Viewport prediction is the crucial task for adaptive 360-degree video streaming, as the bitrate control algorithms usually require the knowledge of the user's viewing portions of the frames. Various methods are studied and adopted for viewport prediction from less accurate statistic tools to highly calibrated deep neural networks. Conventionally, it is difficult to implement sophisticated deep learning methods on mobile devices, which have limited computation capability. In this work, we propose an advanced learning-based viewport prediction approach and carefully design it to introduce minimal transmission and computation overhead for mobile terminals. We also propose a model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) based saliency prediction network trainer, which provides a few-sample fast training solution to obtain the prediction model by utilizing the information from the past models. We further discuss how to integrate this mobile-friendly viewport prediction (MFVP) approach into a typical 360-degree video live streaming system by formulating and solving the bitrate adaptation problem. Extensive experiment results show that our prediction approach can work in real-time for live video streaming and can achieve higher accuracies compared to other existing prediction methods on mobile end, which, together with our bitrate adaptation algorithm, significantly improves the streaming QoE from various aspects. We observe the accuracy of MFVP is 8.1$\%$ to 28.7$\%$ higher than other algorithms and achieves 3.73$\%$ to 14.96$\%$ higher average quality level and 49.6$\%$ to 74.97$\%$ less quality level change than other algorithms.
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spellingShingle Optimizing Mobile-Friendly Viewport Prediction for Live 360-Degree Video Streaming
Zhang, Lei
Long, Tao
Xu, Weizhen
Cui, Laizhong
Liu, Jiangchuan
Multimedia
Image and Video Processing
Viewport prediction is the crucial task for adaptive 360-degree video streaming, as the bitrate control algorithms usually require the knowledge of the user's viewing portions of the frames. Various methods are studied and adopted for viewport prediction from less accurate statistic tools to highly calibrated deep neural networks. Conventionally, it is difficult to implement sophisticated deep learning methods on mobile devices, which have limited computation capability. In this work, we propose an advanced learning-based viewport prediction approach and carefully design it to introduce minimal transmission and computation overhead for mobile terminals. We also propose a model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) based saliency prediction network trainer, which provides a few-sample fast training solution to obtain the prediction model by utilizing the information from the past models. We further discuss how to integrate this mobile-friendly viewport prediction (MFVP) approach into a typical 360-degree video live streaming system by formulating and solving the bitrate adaptation problem. Extensive experiment results show that our prediction approach can work in real-time for live video streaming and can achieve higher accuracies compared to other existing prediction methods on mobile end, which, together with our bitrate adaptation algorithm, significantly improves the streaming QoE from various aspects. We observe the accuracy of MFVP is 8.1$\%$ to 28.7$\%$ higher than other algorithms and achieves 3.73$\%$ to 14.96$\%$ higher average quality level and 49.6$\%$ to 74.97$\%$ less quality level change than other algorithms.
title Optimizing Mobile-Friendly Viewport Prediction for Live 360-Degree Video Streaming
topic Multimedia
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02693