arXiv:2601.17568eess.IVcs.MM2026-01

通过复用编码分析信息,大幅加速8K全景视频的多码率编码。

Fast Multirate Encoding for 360° Video in OMAF Streaming Workflows

  • 跨分辨率复用编码分析数据,减少重复计算。
  • 在8K全景视频上实现33%-59%编码时间降低。
  • 适合需要高效制作高分辨率全景视频的平台方。

为支持超高清沉浸式内容(如8K全景视频)的HTTP自适应流媒体传输,需将视频编码为多种分辨率与量化参数(QPs)下的多个版本。由于现代编解码器复杂度高,该过程计算量巨大。本文提出两种快速多码率编码策略,通过跨分辨率和跨码率复用编码器分析信息来降低耗时。评估了两种信息复用管道:(i) 严格从高清到4K再到8K的级联模式,使用缩放后的分析信息;(ii) 以各分辨率独立最高比特率参考帧初始化,再引导后续编码。实验基于SJTU 8K全景数据集,在等距圆柱投影(ERP)与立方体图投影(CMP)分块编码场景下进行。结果表明,层级化分析复用显著加速HEVC编码,对速率-失真影响极小,在ERP上编码时间减少33%-59%,在CMP上平均减少51%,Bjontegaard Delta Encoding Time(BDET)提升接近-50%,实际运行速度最高提升4.2倍。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Preparing high-quality 360-degree video for HTTP Adaptive Streaming requires encoding each sequence into multiple representations spanning different resolutions and quantization parameters (QPs). For ultra-high-resolution immersive content such as 8K 360-degree video, this process is computationally intensive due to the large number of representations and the high complexity of modern codecs. This paper investigates fast multirate encoding strategies that reduce encoding time by reusing encoder analysis information across QPs and resolutions. We evaluate two cross-resolution information-reuse pipelines that differ in how reference encodes propagate across resolutions: (i) a strict HD -> 4K -> 8K cascade with scaled analysis reuse, and (ii) a resolution-anchored scheme that initializes each resolution with its own highest-bitrate reference before guiding dependent encodes. In addition to evaluating these pipelines on standard equirectangular projection content, we also apply the same two pipelines to cubemap-projection (CMP) tiling, where each 360-degree frame is partitioned into independently encoded tiles. CMP introduces substantial parallelism, while still benefiting from the proposed multirate analysis-reuse strategies. Experimental results using the SJTU 8K 360-degree dataset show that hierarchical analysis reuse significantly accelerates HEVC encoding with minimal rate-distortion impact across both equirectangular and CMP-tiled content, yielding encoding-time reductions of roughly 33%-59% for ERP and about 51% on average for CMP, with Bjontegaard Delta Encoding Time (BDET) gains approaching -50% and wall-clock speedups of up to 4.2x.

全景视频多码率编码加速编码HEVC

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