arXiv:2605.15490eess.IVcs.MM2026-05中稿 · the 2026 IEEE Inte…

动态调整视频分辨率,让直播画质更流畅且省带宽。

Dynamic resolution switching for live streaming

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  • 根据用户带宽和画质转折点,实时生成最优码率阶梯。
  • 实测比传统方法节省约9%码率(BD-rate降低)。
  • 适合追求画质与效率平衡的直播系统开发者。

传统自适应码率(ABR)流媒体系统通常依赖静态码率层级来优化用户体验(QoE)。尽管操作简单,但这种“一刀切”方法忽略了内容特性,常导致流媒体效率下降。基于每标题的优化方法虽能直接从源内容预测率失真凸包,但依赖预编码分析,难以适用于直播场景。此外,其依赖的客观视频质量度量(VQM)虽与主观评分总体相关性高,却在跨分辨率转折点预测上准确度不足,导致码率阶梯构建不佳。为此,我们提出动态分辨率切换(DRS)框架,兼容现有流媒体协议。该框架在静态码率层级基础上,引入由用户带宽分布和跨分辨率区域指导的精选表示,并实时分析这些表示的质量以构建动态码率阶梯。核心是一个轻量级、基于码流的VQM,通过配对比较(PC)数据集训练,确保计算高效的同时最大化主观分辨率转折点预测精度。每个码率下,VQM评估所有候选表示,选出质量得分最高的分辨率。该决策过程可配置粒度(如按片段),专门优化于该度量。实验验证表明,该方法在保持直播可行性的同时,性能显著提升:在所提VQM下,实现约9%的BD-rate降低。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Conventional adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming systems typically rely on static bitrate ladders to optimize Quality of Experience (QoE). While operationally simple, this "one-size-fits-all" approach neglects content-specific characteristics, often compromising streaming efficiency. Per-title optimization methods address this by predicting the rate-distortion convex hull directly from the source content, but their reliance on pre-encoding source analysis can limit their applicability to live streaming. Moreover, the objective video quality metrics (VQMs) they rely on are optimized for overall correlation with subjective scores rather than cross-over accuracy, often yielding inaccurate cross-over predictions and suboptimal ladder construction. To overcome both limitations, we introduce a Dynamic Resolution Switching (DRS) framework for live streaming that remains fully compatible with existing streaming protocols. Our approach augments static ladders with strategically selected representations guided by user bandwidth distributions and cross-over regions. The quality of these representations is then analyzed in real time to construct dynamic ladders. Central to this framework is a lightweight, bitstream-based VQM that ensures computational efficiency while maximizing the accuracy of subjective resolution cross-over prediction through training on Pairwise Comparison (PC) datasets. At each bitrate, the VQM evaluates all candidate representations to identify the resolution maximizing the quality score. This decision process, operating at a configurable granularity (e.g., per segment), drives the dynamic resolution switching mechanism specifically optimized for the metric. Experimental results validate the approach, demonstrating a significant performance gain (approximately 9% BD-rate reduction under the proposed VQM) while maintaining practical feasibility for live streaming.

直播流码率控制动态切换

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