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Structural similarity (SSIM)-based distortion $\text {D}_{\text {SSIM}}$ is more consistent with human perception than the traditional mean squared error $\text {D}_{\text {MSE}}$ . To achieve better video encoding quality, many studies on optimal bit allocation (OBA) used $\text {D}_{\text {SSIM}}$ as the distortion metric. However, the MSE-based rate distortion optimization (RDO) was still used in

The physical process used in CCD cameras for image formation makes it imperative to simultaneously upsample and deblur the captured images. In this paper, we provide an efficient scheme to solve this problem through a nonlinear end-to-end mapping carried out by a novel deep light-weight residual neural network. The proposed network is designed based on two main modules, namely, image upsampling and

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Spatial scalable video service has surged in the time of multiple screens. Existing bitrate allocation methods are principled by rate-distortion theory and characterized by iterative encoding, which is accurate yet complex. However, the quasi-quantitative description is preferred in practice of broadcasting. In this paper, we propose a task of bitrate estimation for scalable videos concerning the content

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The high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals leads to a serious system performance degradation. To work around this issue, several algorithms have been proposed in the literature to reduce the PAPR, but, they often suffer from multiple limitations; in particular, the main issue with interleaving techniques is the spectral efficiency loss,

In this article, we propose a quality assessment model-based on the projection invariant feature and the visual saliency for Stereoscopic Omnidirectional Images (SOIs). Firstly, the projection invariant monocular and binocular features of SOI are derived from the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) points to tackle the inconsistency between the stretched projection formats and the viewports. Secondly

One of the main characteristics of the DVB-S2/S2X standard is the capability of using the Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) technique. Differently from Variable Coding and Modulation (VCM), ACM provides a feedback path in the return channel for dynamically varying protection error levels in accordance with different channel conditions. In this article, a double-layer packet scheduling mechanism

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems suffer from the inherent problem of high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). In this article, a novel adjustable nonlinear companding transform is proposed, which is based on scaling of original probability density function (PDF) of OFDM signal amplitudes. The target PDF consists of two parts. The first part with amplitudes no more than the

Light-field technology has significant potential for future three-dimensional (3-D) television (TV) services in which 3-D objects or spaces are shown with a strong sense of presence. However, the physical specifications required for light-field displays to show the typical scenes depicted in current broadcasting are not yet known. In particular, angular resolution is a representative specification

This article analyzes the capacities of various layered-division multiplexing (LDM)-based multiple physical layer pipe (M-PLP) configurations in Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0. Further, this article proposes an extended multi-layer LDM that consists of a core layer and one or more enhanced layer(s) combined with different injection levels. The proposed multi-layer LDM can be combined

In the present article, we propose a novel selected mapping (SLM) scheme based on a Polar coding technique for peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation (OFDM-IM) systems. The proposed scheme by utilizing random frozen bits in polar codes generates different number of candidate sequences. Then the candidate sequence with the smallest

I would like to once again express my concern and support for all the members of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) community and others affected by the ongoing global health crisis. The health and safety of the members of our community is our first priority.

The 2020 Scott Helt Memorial Award was awarded to Manuel Fuentes, Hongzhi Chen, Eduardo Garro, Jose Luis Carcel, David Vargas, Belkacem Mouhouche, David Gomez-Barquero for their paper, “Physical Layer Performance Evaluation of LTE-Advanced Pro Broadcast and ATSC 3.0 Systems.” The papers appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 477–488, September 2019. The purpose of the

Electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antenna is a novel low-cost technique to gain comparable diversity order to that of using multiple antennas while maintaining one radio frequency (RF) front-end, low power consumption, and simple wiring at the mobile receiver. It has huge potential to realize high energy efficiency for multiple and massive antennas systems. The main drawback

This paper presents performance analysis of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 physical layer protocol in mobile multipath channels. Given the recommended configurations for ATSC 3.0 mobile services, intensive computer simulations as well as laboratory tests are conducted to verify the performance of various modulation and code combinations in ATSC 3.0 physical layer protocol. The

This paper analyzes reliability and quality gains that can be achieved by a broadcast-unicast convergent platform operating in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based cellular networks. The analysis is addressed in network scope, dealing with randomly distributed users and base stations (BSs) within a stochastic geometry framework. Additionally a well-known Zipf-distribution popularity model on

This paper tackles a non-orthogonal multiplexing (NOM)-based realization of broadcast-unicast overlay transmission in cloud-radio access networks (C-RANs). In particular, fronthaul compression and precoding are jointly optimized to maximize the throughput in the considered network. The problem further optimizing the power allocation between broadcast and unicast signals is addressed as well. The algorithmic

The vision of next-generation TV is to support media services to achieve sharing of cross-domain experience, and the eMBB scenario of the 5G network is one of its important driving forces. Considering the bandwidth and resource requirements of different services, such as unicast and multicast services of multimedia TV broadcasting, rationally allocating resources while providing high-quality services

There is a gap between recent development of 4K display technologies and the short storage of 4K contents. Super-Resolution (SR) serves as a bridge to harmonize the need and demand. Recently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based networks have demonstrated great property in image SR. However, most existing methods require large model capacity and consume expensive computation for high performance

The process of rate-distortion (RD) optimization plays a key role for video coding, which aims to achieve a tradeoff between compression efficiency and video quality distortion. Although the conventional objective distortion metric mean squared error performs well in computational complexity, it is not always in accordance with the perceptual quality perceived by human visual system (HVS). Taking the

The impact of online video advertisement has an evolving and undeniable influence on the success of online video streaming. A successful online video advertisement campaign deployment necessitates: “targeting appropriate marketing audience, determining optimum intervals to insert advertisement, associating the production quality of the content while considering advertisement conceptual features, matching

A symbiotic FM radio data system (SRDS) refers to a kind of digital broadcasting whose signal co-exists with the FM in channel. The SRDS signal has a symmetrical split spectrum in the band of the host FM signal spectrum. Like the FM signal, this kind of broadcasting signal also has a wide range of ground coverage. When used as an alternative to the positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), it will

The digital television terrestrial broadcasting (DTTB) system is one of the most important wireless broadcasting systems, but its indoor coverage performance is not satisfactory enough. The visible light communication (VLC) system works well for indoor scenarios and becomes a quite appealing technology that can realize indoor wireless communications. In this paper, we propose a hybrid system called

Broadcast encryption with personalized messages (BEPM) is a newly proposed cryptographic primitive, which supports a broadcaster to deliver the common encrypted broadcast message to a group of authorized users. It also supports a broadcaster to deliver the personalized messages to the individual authorized users simultaneously. However, none of the existing BEPM schemes consider the anonymity of authorized

Network slicing is a widely discussed technology for 5G broadcasting services, as it allows the operators to create end-to-end virtual slices across the 5G core (5GC) and the 5G radio access network (RAN). The joint network slicing is necessary for 5GC and 5G RAN in a bid to enhance the overall resource utilization and quality of service. Nevertheless, as the dimension of network resource and user

Planning for Multi-Frequency Network (MFN) with Digital Video Broadcasting-Second Generation Terrestrial (DVB-T2) services is particularly useful during the transition from analog to digital broadcasting. For efficient management of service area as well as resource allocation, it is necessary to administer the use of network parameters, e.g., transmit power, frequency channels, and antenna parameters

This article investigates the non-uniform constellation (NUC) optimization adapted for Hierarchical modulation (HM) without using Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC). This approach is promising to reduce system demod/decode delay in comparison to Layered Division Multiplexing (LDM). By maximizing the constellation constrained capacity of Enhanced Layer (EL) service in HM, while the capacity

Owing to increasing consumption of video streams and demand for higher quality content and more advanced displays, future telecommunication networks are expected to outperform current networks in terms of key performance indicators (KPIs). Currently, content delivery networks (CDNs) are used to enhance media availability and delivery performance across the Internet in a cost-effective manner. The proliferation

Hierarchical modulation provides unequal error protection to transmitted data according to their relative importance. In this article, hierarchical modulation constellation based on circular $\theta $ -quadrature amplitude modulation (CTQAM), 4/ ${M}$ -CTQAM, $M = 2^{k}$ , $k \geq 4$ , is proposed. We provide a construction method and bit-to-symbol mapping for the proposed hierarchical modulation constellation

Layered Division Multiplexing (LDM) has demonstrated increased data rate capacity for wireless applications where the service bitrates being multiplexed are unbalanced. Current Direct-To-Home (DTH) broadcasting satellite standards (DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X) include Variable Coding and Modulation (VCM) mode. VCM provides the opportunity to deliver different services on a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) basis

High frame rate film should decrease motion blur and temporal aliasing allowing viewers to see more detail. Here we assessed how frame rate affected perception of detail in fabrics and costume ornamentation in three experiments. Live action footage with a fashion show theme was captured at all combinations of two resolutions (2k and 4k), three frame rates (24, 48 and 60 fps), and two shutter angles

Base station caching and multicast are two promising methods to support mass content delivery in future wireless network environments. However, existing scheduling designs do not take full advantage of the two methods. This article focuses on employing multicast scheduling and caching in a network architecture which involves both macro cell base stations (MBS) and small cell base stations (SBS) in

With the proliferation of mobile devices and online video services, mobile learning has grown both in popularity and complexity. New challenges include the multitude of mobile devices with different characteristics and limitations, as well as the exponential growth in educational multimedia content. Streaming multimedia content to mobile devices is a resource intensive task that requires significant

This study introduces a targeted advertisement service in the terrestrial UHD transmission environment by proposing a method to control advertisement exposure in real-time with minimal impact on current systems. The suggested system uses advertisement management information that can be accessed by broadcaster applications. Thus, this article describes the changes that need to be applied in the current

With the widespread of application scenarios such as remote office and cloud collaboration, Screen Content Video (SCV) and its processing which show different characteristics from Natural Scene Video (NSV) and its processing, are increasingly attracting researcher’s attention. Among these processing techniques, quality evaluation plays an important role in various media processing systems. Despite

The ever-growing demands for data-hungry services make the multicast play an increasingly important role in service delivery. 3GPP has enabled multicast for cellular network, including the adoption of two distinct multicast modes, Multicast/Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) and Single Cell Point to Multipoint (SC-PTM). However, the lack of flexible selection between different multicast modes

Due to the limited storage capacity and network bandwidth, an efficient rate control (RC) algorithm becomes more and more critical for multi-view video coding (MVC). Based on inter-view dependency and spatio-temporal correlation, a novel bit allocation method for multi-view texture video coding is proposed in this article. Firstly, considering that the distortion in the base view (BV) is directly transmitted

Ultra-high-definition display technology is widely used in broadcasting, but there is a huge contradiction between its ultra-high-resolution content and short storage. Super-Resolution (SR) can effectively alleviate this contradiction. Recently, State-of-the-art image SR approaches leveraging Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have demonstrated high-quality reconstruction performance. However

This article investigates the reliability gain of broadcast (BC)/broadband (BB) cooperation for mobile scalable video streaming. A specific form of BC-BB cooperation is introduced, which is referred to as cooperative casting . The proposed system primarily utilizes a BC transmission for streaming, while BB backup transmissions are requested whenever the BC signal is not decodable. For BC deliveries

Interference alignment (IA) in the spatial domain has been recognized as an important technique to handle the interference in dense network. However, traditional IA is flawed especially for large scale antenna systems. With challenges brought by hybrid precoding, IA cannot be perfectly achieved with limited radio frequency (RF) chains. In this article, we adopt the thought of interference subspace

Recent advances in video frame interpolation have shown that convolutional neural networks combined with optical flow are capable of producing a high-quality intermediate frame between two consecutive input frames in most scenes. However, existing methods have difficulties dealing with large and non-uniform motions that widely exist in real-world scenes because they often adopt the same strategy to

Techniques of using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to colorize monochrome still images have been widely researched. However, the results of automatic colorization are often different from the user’s intentions and historical fact. A lot of color correction work still needs to be done in order to produce a colorized video. This is a major problem in situations such as broadcasting production where

Single frequency networks (SFN) are being widely adopted for different communication services. SFNs employ transmitters operating at the same frequency band and the locations of transmitter stations must be selected to improve coverage while under different constrains. In general, choosing the transmitters locations to vouch the coverage in a region of interest demands experience and expertise on network

To solve practical challenges for implementing deep learning-based algorithm in MIMO signal detector such as handling complex number or designing proper neural network for a specific communication system, (Baek et al. , 2019) has proposed candidate implementation methodologies with simple verification experiments. According to (Baek et al. , 2019), it was shown that the proposed algorithms can achieve

The 360-degree video streaming has higher bandwidth requirements compared with traditional video to achieve the same user-perceived playback quality. Since users only view part of the entire videos, viewport-adaptive streaming is an effective approach to guarantee video quality. However, the performance of viewport-adaptive schemes is highly dependent on the bandwidth estimation and viewport prediction

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The adoption of OFDM as the physical layer waveform in ATSC 3.0 leaves the door open for the implementation of Single Frequency Networks (SFN). In addition, Layered Division Multiplexing (LDM), which can be understood as a low complexity approach for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) techniques, has also been included as a baseline technology. These two new features can be combined to offer LDM

Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling with linear precoding is investigated as a potential technique to transcend digital video broadcasting-satellite-second generation extension (DVB-S2X). Combining cyclic prefix (CP), cyclic suffix (CS) and discrete Fourier transform (DFT) with existing linear precoding algorithms, such as G-to-minus-half (GTMH) precoding (GTMHP), the CPS-GTMH-DFTP algorithm is proposed