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Performance Bound for Online Scalable Video Coding and Scalable Semantic Coding

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韩维佳 (Weijia Han)
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Xiaoyu Zhang
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Bizheng Luo
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Teng Wei
马骁 (Xiao Ma)
C
Chuan Huang
DOI:10.1109/TMC.2025.3649922delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Recently, scalable video coding (SVC) and scalable semantic coding (SSC) have emerged as effective solutions for supporting online video streaming in applications such as remote cockpits and telemedicine. Although the significance of SVC and SSC is well established, the underlying principles related to their performance bounds have not been thoroughly investigated. To address this issue, we study the performance bounds for online SVC/SSC in this paper. Initially, to evaluate coding performance, we propose a new metric referred to as effective coding gain (ECG), which jointly considers the entropy of the source data and the mutual information between the source and the encoded video data. Next, from the perspective of information theory, we derive a closed-form expression for the ECG bound while accounting for the impacts of diverse SVC/SSC coding structures. Our results not only ensure that the performance bounds can be efficiently evaluated but also provide valuable insights for resource allocation, cost optimization, performance evaluation and comparison, as well as for understanding the optimization space of existing systems.
Keywords:
Scalable video coding (SVC)
scalable semantic coding (SSC)
scalable semantic communication
group of pictures (GoP)
information theory
GoP structure

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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing cover
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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university of electronic science and technology of china
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1.3W
Papers: 4.6K
Citations: 4
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shaanxi normal university
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2.3K
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