Thursday, April 6, 2023

VCD: Video Complexity Dataset

The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) Open Dataset and Software (ODS) track

June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland

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Hadi Amirpour, Vignesh V Menon, Samira Afzal, Mohammad Ghanbari, and Christian Timmerer
Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the open Video Complexity Dataset (VCD) which comprises 500 Ultra High Definition (UHD) resolution test video sequences. These sequences are provided at 24 frames per second (fps) and stored online in losslessly encoded 8-bit 4:2:0 format. In this paper, all sequences are characterized by spatial and temporal complexities, rate-distortion complexity, and encoding complexity with the x264 AVC/H.264 and x265 HEVC/H.265 video encoders. The dataset is tailor-made for cutting-edge multimedia applications such as video streaming, two-pass encoding, per-title encoding, scene-cut detection, etc. Evaluations show that the dataset includes diversity in video complexities. Hence, using this dataset is recommended for training and testing video coding applications. All data have been made publicly available as part of the dataset, which can be used for various applications.

The details of VCD can be accessed online at https://vcd.itec.aau.at.

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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