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SlimFit-Gens: Toward Low Bandwidth One-on-One Video Calls on COTS Smartphones
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Mobile video calls play an essential role in our daily lives. However, in bandwidth-limited scenarios (e.g., inadequate cellular coverage, congested satellite links, and metered connections), users often experience poor quality of experience (QoE) during video calls. While recent advances in deep learning have demonstrated significant improvements in video compression over traditional methods, existing approaches are ill-suited for bidirectional video streaming on smartphones. The primary challenge lies in simultaneously achieving high video quality, computational and bandwidth efficiency, and practical usability on constrained mobile devices. In this work, we present SlimFit-Gens, the first practical video calling system for smartphones capable of delivering real-time 480p video at as low as 30 kbps. SlimFit-Gens addresses the challenge with joint algorithm and system-level optimizations. The core technique is a fine-grained model personalization design tailored for mobile video calling, enabling high-fidelity video generation at low model complexity. SlimFit-Gens achieves effective personalized adaptation through a novel two-stage personalization mechanism working upon an optimized model architecture. It also incorporates a privacy-preserving, resource-efficient system design, featuring TEE-based (e.g., Confidential VM/NVIDIA Confidential Computing) fine-tuning on the server side and heterogeneity-aware inference on the device side. We implement SlimFit-Gens on four commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) smartphones with different system-on-chip (SoC) configurations and conduct extensive evaluations. Compared to prior work, SlimFit-Gens simultaneously improves generation quality with a 0.09-0.12 reduction in LPIPS and system efficiency through a 1.6-1.8× increase in video frame rate.
Keywords:
Mobile video calls
deep learning
personalization
confidential computing
low bandwidth
satellite communications
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