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Enhancing AccessGrid with Advanced Codecs

Learn about integrating cutting-edge video and speech codecs into the AccessGrid for high-performance computing. Explore MPEG4/H.264 and Speex, optimizing codec performance and quality. Future work includes new protocols and user interfaces.

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Enhancing AccessGrid with Advanced Codecs

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  1. Integration of Advanced Video/Speech Codecs into AccessGrid National Center for High Performance Computing Speaker: Barz Hsu Email: barz@nchc.org.tw Aug 25, 2005

  2. Outline • Overview • NCHC-VIC: • Introduction to MPEG4/H.264 codec • Codec Optimization • NCHC-RAT: • Introduction to Speex codec • Echo Cancellation and Noise Control • Future Work

  3. Overview • AccessGrid is scalable collaborative environment. • AccessGrid is complicated and not easy to use. • Major complexity comes from the two core media • vic (video) and rat (speech) • Most of video/speech codecs inside AccessGrid are out-of-date. • Integrate state-of-art MPEG4/H.264 codecs for video coding, and Speex codec for speech coding. • High quality and low latency

  4. MPEG4 Codec • Related Open Source Project • FFmpeg, xvid, and sklmp4 • FFmpeg/libavcodec • High performance on CPU usage • Support various codec • MPEG4, MPEG2, MPEG1 • H.263++, H.263, H.261 • Provide error resilience tools • slices, data partition • Cross Platform • Linux, Windows, and Mac OS

  5. H.264 Codec • NCHC-VIC based on X264 project of VideoLAN. • X264 is widely used by other OpenSource projects, ex., FFMpeg, Mplayer, VideoLan. • X264 is the only free software among current H.264 codecs. • The project is still under aggressive development. • http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html

  6. H.264 Codec (cont’d) • Adopt new techniques to effectively reduce bandwidth requirement and provide better visual quality • Smaller block division • Multiple prediction modes • Multiple reference frames • Finer motion estimation (Quarter-Pel) • Deblocking filter • More computation intensive (5 to 10 times of MPEG4 ASP) Visual Comparison between H.264 and MPEG4 (static video with128kbps) Visual Comparison between H.264 and MPEG4 (static video with128kbps)

  7. Codec Optimization • Multithread Encoding • Take advantage of symmetric multiple processor architecture • Pipeline the latency of transmission and encoding • SIMD Instruction Sets • Optimized by MMX, SSE/SSE2/SSE3

  8. H.264 Optimization • Due to the need of huge computation for H.264 encoding, we close some advanced features to meet the requirement of the real-time video conference • Using CAVLC instead of CABAC • Larger block division • Simpler block mode prediction

  9. FFMpeg MPEG4 vs x264 (RD Curve) x264: cavlc, only 16x16 block

  10. FFMpeg MPEG4 vs x264 (Speed) x264: cavlc, only 16x16 block CPU: P4 2.8GHz RAM: 512MB

  11. Visual Comparison between H.264 and MPEG4 (static video with128kbps) MPEG4 H.264

  12. Visual Comparison between H.264 and MPEG4 (dynamic video with128kbps) MPEG4 H.264

  13. Full Screen Snapshot

  14. Experimental Video

  15. NCHC-VIC for Win32 Port • Based on Linux Version • Update IPv6 code • Compiled by Visual Studio 6 • Some parts are compiled by gcc and then link.

  16. NCHC VIC for Win32 Screenshot

  17. Speex Codec for Speech • NCHC-RAT adopts Speex open source project • Paten-free audio compression format • Narrowband (8 kHz), wideband (16 kHz), and ultra-wideband (32 kHz) • Subband coding to reduce computation overhead • Packet loss concealment • Intensity stereo encoding • Project website, • http://www.speex.org/

  18. Echo Cancellation and Noise Control • Adaptive filter to model acoustic echo path • Multidelay Block Frequency Domain Adaptive Filter • Double Talk Detector • Multidelay Double-Talk Detector Combined with the MDF Adaptive Filter • Noise Control • Mexico-hat low pass filter

  19. Echo Model

  20. NLMS Algorithm • Normalize Least Mean Square Algorithm

  21. Future Work • Session Description Protocol • Session Announcement Protocol • Advanced User Interface • Zero-Configure Cluster Decoding

  22. Thanks for your attendance

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