Hybrid Visual Telemetry for Bandwidth-Constrained Robotic Vision: A Pilot Study with HEVC Base Video and JPEG ROI Stills

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Main Authors: Trukhina, Natalia, Vashkelis, Vadim
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author Trukhina, Natalia
Vashkelis, Vadim
author_facet Trukhina, Natalia
Vashkelis, Vadim
contents Bandwidth-constrained robotic and surveillance systems often rely on a single compressed video stream to support both continuous scene awareness and downstream machine perception. In practice, this creates a mismatch: low-bitrate video can preserve motion and coarse context, but often loses the fine local detail needed for reliable object recognition and decision-making. Motivated by a hybrid architecture in which low-resolution video supports dynamic scene understanding while eventdriven high-detail regions of interest (ROIs) support close-up identification and analytics, this paper formalizes a two-channel visual telemetry scheme in which a continuous low-bitrate video stream is augmented by selectively transmitted high-detail still ROIs. This first paper does not attempt to prove the superiority of a new still-image codec. Instead, it establishes the hybrid transmission paradigm itself using a practical and reproducible codec stack: x265/HEVC for the base video stream and JPEG stills for ROI refinement. We formulate the problem as bitrate-constrained information selection for robotic vision and define an experimental protocol in which video-only and hybrid schemes are compared under matched total communication budgets. The study is designed around UAV-oriented datasets, two practical bitrate regimes, several ROI triggering policies, and object-level classification refinement on selectively transmitted ROI stills. The resulting paper lays the methodological foundation for a second-stage investigation of JPEG AI as the semantic still-image channel within the same hybrid architecture.
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spellingShingle Hybrid Visual Telemetry for Bandwidth-Constrained Robotic Vision: A Pilot Study with HEVC Base Video and JPEG ROI Stills
Trukhina, Natalia
Vashkelis, Vadim
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Robotics
Bandwidth-constrained robotic and surveillance systems often rely on a single compressed video stream to support both continuous scene awareness and downstream machine perception. In practice, this creates a mismatch: low-bitrate video can preserve motion and coarse context, but often loses the fine local detail needed for reliable object recognition and decision-making. Motivated by a hybrid architecture in which low-resolution video supports dynamic scene understanding while eventdriven high-detail regions of interest (ROIs) support close-up identification and analytics, this paper formalizes a two-channel visual telemetry scheme in which a continuous low-bitrate video stream is augmented by selectively transmitted high-detail still ROIs. This first paper does not attempt to prove the superiority of a new still-image codec. Instead, it establishes the hybrid transmission paradigm itself using a practical and reproducible codec stack: x265/HEVC for the base video stream and JPEG stills for ROI refinement. We formulate the problem as bitrate-constrained information selection for robotic vision and define an experimental protocol in which video-only and hybrid schemes are compared under matched total communication budgets. The study is designed around UAV-oriented datasets, two practical bitrate regimes, several ROI triggering policies, and object-level classification refinement on selectively transmitted ROI stills. The resulting paper lays the methodological foundation for a second-stage investigation of JPEG AI as the semantic still-image channel within the same hybrid architecture.
title Hybrid Visual Telemetry for Bandwidth-Constrained Robotic Vision: A Pilot Study with HEVC Base Video and JPEG ROI Stills
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01826