Friday, April 22, 2022

Super-resolution Based Bitrate Adaptation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming for Mobile Devices

ACM Mile-High Video Conference 2022 (MHV)

March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA

Minh NguyenEkrem Çetinkaya, Hermann Hellwagner, and Christian Timmerer
Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

Abstract: The advancement of mobile hardware in recent years made it possible to apply deep neural network (DNN) based approaches on mobile devices. This paper introduces a lightweight super-resolution (SR) network, namely SR-ABR Net, deployed at mobile devices to upgrade low-resolution/low-quality videos and a novel adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithm, namely WISH-SR, that leverages SR networks at the client to improve the video quality depending on the client’s context. WISH-SR takes into account mobile device properties, video characteristics, and user preferences. Experimental results show that the proposed SR-ABR Net can improve the video quality compared to traditional SR approaches while running in real-time. Moreover, the proposed WISH-SR can significantly boost the visual quality of the delivered content while reducing both bandwidth consumption and the number of stalling events.

Keywords: Super-resolution, Deep Neural Networks, Mobile Devices, ABR


Acknowledgments: The financial support of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development, and the Christian Doppler Research Association, is gratefully acknowledged. Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA: https://athena.itec.aau.at/.

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