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The book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of current research on cognitive and applied aspects of eye movements. The contents include peer-reviewed chapters based on a selection of papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Eye Movements (Turku, Finland 2001), supplemented by invited contributions. The ECEM conference series brings together researchers from various disciplines with an interest to use eye-tracking to study perceptual and higher order cognitive functions. The contents of the book faithfully reflect the scope and diversity of interest in eye-tracking as a fruitful tool both in basic and applied research. It consists of five sections: visual information processing and saccadic eye movements; empirical studies of reading and language production; computational models of eye movements in reading; eye-tracking as a tool to study human-computer interaction; and eye movement applications in media and communication research. Each section is concluded by a commentary chapter by one of the leading authorities in the field. These commentaries discuss and integrate the contributions in the section and provide an expert view on the most significant present and future developments in the respective areas. The book is a reference volume including a large body of new empirical work but also principal theoretical viewpoints of leading research groups in the field.View full description
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I "found" the Trattoria Trecolori via general internet search. I was looking for pre-theater dining suggestions, and there was a site that listed "8 great pre-theater restaurant choices". After looking them over, the Trattoria Trecolori sounded like a winner. After some initial confusion based on the website having the trattoria's OLD address (the new one was two blocks to the north), we zipped over for dinner. What an excellent choice.
This is just a good and classic Italian place.... not too pretentious or stuffy, but definitely high-quality cuisine. And, much of their menu is geared to a large number of early patrons who are headed out to the theater.... translation, you can get an excellent meal, and the service will insure a pleasureable experience that doesn't come across as rushed.
As you'd expect they have an excellent wine list, and there are several moderately priced choices that matchup well with whatever you order.
Favorite Dish: We started with one of their shared appetizer plates, the Trecolori. This featured a variety of cured meats, cheeses, olives, peppers and caper berries. There are also seafood-themed appetizer plates that more than suit a couple.
My daughter had one of the caprese salads, with its fresh tomatoes and scrumptious mozzarella di bufala.
Pasta options are plentiful and varied, including such exotic choices as linguine Neri alli monsignore, featuring Homemade black (squid ink) linguini with shrimp, scallops, squid, clams, and mussels in marinara.
I chose the scarpariello, consisting of diced chicken breast sautéed with sweet Italian sausage in a garlic, rosemary, olive oil and white wine sauce. Absolutely enthralling - I enjoyed every bite.
And.... then cometh the dessert tray. My daughter chose one of the cannoli and Bonnie had the homemade caramel custard flan. I went with the light and yet so rich ricotta cheesecake, accompanied by fresh strawberries and raspberries.
This is a GREAT pre-theater choice. I'd also think that a late dinner, well after the crowds have disappeared onto the great white way, would be an excellent plan. I'd be sure to have some cafe correto to close the evening....or maybe start it?
Trattoria Trecolori: Site of VT Meeting Sept 25, 2007
This is another place we used as a VT meeting. A wide open dining area and fairly good service for its location I was happy I made the effort to come out and meet so many new to me VTers that day.
Favorite Dish: I enjoyed my lunch of a black ink pasta and a glass of wine.
Trattoria Trecolori: Very nice food, and reasonable prices
We had a VT meet here in Sept of 2007, during lunch and it was very good. It's not far from Times Square. The food was great, and not overpriced like so many in this area are.
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Few observations -
Since JCP was a big loser in 2013, I expected a lot of tax loss selling at the end of the year to off-set gains in other stocks... It didn't happen... Perhaps all the weak hands are already long gone and people who hold JCP stock really expect it to go a lot higher and don't want to miss the move up when it happens.
Last few days have been strange with stock price almost not moving at all and trading in 1 and 2 cent range all day long...I somehow get the feeling that there is lot of accumulation going on by some hedge funds setting themselves up for 2014. I will not be surprised if a bunch of hedge funds disclose big stakes and squeeze the shorts big time...It could happen...Check out Volkswagen short squeeze, considered the mother of all short squeezes.
I've been doing some ground research at the local JCP stores and i see that the traffic is comparable to other stores..It will be interesting to see if this trend continues in January...When i visited the store sometime in October the store was shockingly empty..I am not expecting to see that anymore...Good word of mouth from the holiday quarter should result in more traffic over the coming quarters..
Overall, i expect the stock to ATLEAST double in price in 2014...This is a classic market psychology and sentiment play... There are dumb shorts who think they can just predict stock price by whipping out their little calculators and throwing around some numbers...The market DOESN'T CARE about numbers as much as it cares about sentiment...Look at TWTR stock for example...If market gets a confirmation that JCP will survive and thrive then it will look 2-3 yrs down the line...the immediate revenues/earnings doesn't matter much.. Of course, this is too hard to understand for the little short brains :-)
Sentiment: Hold
Likewise, if JCP gave away the store like I think they did, it will be obvious to EVERYONE (including thick-skulled shorts) that JCP cannot achieve growing sales without sacrificing profit margins. I look for JCP to close out 2014 in bankruptcy and with its shares trading under $5.00.
, if JCP gave away the store like I think they did, it will be obvious to EVERYONE (including thick-skulled shorts) that JCP cannot achieve growing sales without sacrificing profit margins.
I'm not any more privy to the sales or margins of JCPenney than any other poster on this board, but I note that the "Hype and Hope" crowd are failing to address a few issues - -
1. If other brick and mortar stores suffered declining sales and margins - what did JCPenney do that made them stand out from the crowd.
2. If sales are better than anticipated - they will ALWAYS be leaked by "Un-named sources" - nothing as of yet !!
3. Given the abysmal figures from last year - any sales increase of less than a spectacular number will be of little use unless accompanied by a substantial increase in margins - - - - it's a lot harder to produce a 33-35% margin than some of our board "Pumpers" realize - - - if only you could just snap your fingers and make it happen -
Here is what might happen -
JCP shows very good growth in sales....that results in the share price going significantly higher because let's face it...how many companies do you know that went bankrupt while their sales were increasing?
At this point, even if they need more cash, they can always issue more stock when the share price is much higher...the dilution will be lot less...The next step is to focus on margins...If every frickin retailer can get 35% margin, JCP can too..just a matter of time!!
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This application claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60/118,359, filed on Feb. 3, 1999.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to image processing, and, in particular, to video compression.
2. Description of the Related Art
The goal of video compression processing is to encode image data to reduce the number of bits used to represent a sequence of video images while maintaining an acceptable level of quality in the decoded video sequence. This goal is particularly important in certain applications, such as videophone or video conferencing over POTS (plain old telephone service) or ISDN (integrated services digital network) lines, where the existence of limited transmission bandwidth requires careful control over the bit rate, that is, the number of bits used to encode each image in the video sequence. Furthermore, in order to satisfy the transmission and other processing requirements of a video conferencing system, it is often desirable to have a relatively steady flow of bits in the encoded video bitstream. That is, the variations in bit rate from image to image within a video sequence should be kept as low as practicable.
Achieving a relatively uniform bit rate can be very difficult, especially for video compression algorithms that encode different images within a video sequence using different compression techniques. Depending on the video compression algorithm, images may be designated as the following different types of frames for compression processing:
An intra (I) frame which is encoded using only intra-frame compression techniques,
A predicted (P) frame which is encoded using inter-frame compression techniques based on a previous I or P frame, and which can itself be used as a reference frame to encode one or more other frames,
A bi-directional (B) frame which is encoded using bi-directional inter-frame compression techniques based on a previous I or P frame, a subsequent I or P frame, or a combination of both, and which cannot itself be used to encode another frame, and
A PB frame which corresponds to two images—a P frame and a subsequent B frame—that are encoded as a single frame (as in the H.263 video compression algorithm). Depending on the actual image data to be encoded, these different types of frames typically require different numbers of bits to encode. For example, I frames typically require the greatest numbers of bits, while B frames typically require the least number of bits.
In a typical transform-based video compression algorithm, a block-based transform, such as a discrete cosine transform (DCT), is applied to blocks of image data corresponding either to pixel values or pixel differences generated, for example, based on a motion-compensated inter-frame differencing scheme. The resulting transform coefficients for each block are then quantized for subsequent encoding (e.g., run-length encoding followed by variable-length encoding). The degree to which the transform coefficients are quantized directly affects both the number of bits used to represent the image data and the quality of the resulting decoded image. This degree of quantization is also referred to as the quantization level, which is often represented by a specified quantizer value that is used to quantize all of the transform coefficients. In some video compression algorithms, the quantization level refers to a particular table of quantizer values that are used to quantize the different transform coefficients, where each transform coefficient has its own corresponding quantizer value in the table. In general, higher quantizer values imply more severe quantization and therefore fewer bits in the encoded bitstream at the cost of lower playback quality of the decoded images. As such, the quantizer is often used as the primary variable for controlling the tradeoff between bit rate and image quality.
Visual quality of video depends not only on global measures (like pixel signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR)), but also on how the error is distributed in space and time. Thus, it is important to maintain spatial smoothness of the quantizer (which is closely related to the local distortion) across the picture. In fact, in many scenes, the ideal quantizer selection is a uniform value across the scene. However, such a scheme will not support the moving of bits to a more-important region from less-important regions, and furthermore, will provide very little control over the bits used to encode the picture. Thus, it cannot be used in constant (or near-constant) bit-rate applications (like videophone and video-conferencing over POTS or ISDN).
The other possibility is to vary the quantizer from macroblock to macroblock within the constraints of the coding standard being used (for example, in H.263, the quantizer value can change by a value of at most 2 in either direction from one macroblock to the next when following a raster scan pattern through the image). Examples of such schemes are given in the H.263+TMN8 (Test Model Near-Term 8) and TMN9 documents (see, e.g., ITU—Telecommunications Standardization Sector, "Video Codec Test Model, Near-Term, Version 9 (TMN9)", Document Q15-C-15, December 1997). In these schemes, while the frame-level bit target can be accurately met, there are many, possibly large quantizer changes, both spatially and temporally, which show up annoyingly in the moving video as undesirable artifacts.
The present invention is directed to a technique for assigning quantization levels (e.g., quantizer values) used during video compression processing. According to the present invention, an image is segmented into one or more different regions, and a temporal prediction model is separately applied to each region to assign a quantization level to be used to quantize the transform coefficients for the macroblocks of that region. Because the temporal prediction model is applied separately to each region, a different quantization level may be—but does not have to be—assigned to each different region.
According to one embodiment, the present invention is a method for encoding a current frame in a video sequence, comprising the steps of (a) segmenting the current frame into one or more different regions; (b) generating an encoding complexity measure for each corresponding region of a previously encoded frame in the video sequence; (c) using the encoding complexity measure for each region of the previous frame to select a quantization level for the corresponding region of the current frame; and (d) encoding the current frame using the one or more selected quantization levels.
Other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more fully apparent from the following detailed description, the appended claims, and the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows an example of a typical image that can be encoded using the present invention; and
FIG. 2 shows a flow diagram of the processing involved in applying a temporal prediction model during video compression processing, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 shows an example of a typical image 100 that can be encoded using the present invention. The image in FIG. 1 consists of the head and shoulders of a person 102 positioned in front of background imagery 104, where the image data corresponding to the head of person 102 varies more in time (i.e., from frame to frame) than the background imagery. Such a "talking head" scene is typical of videophone and video-conferencing applications. In general, during playback, the person in the foreground is of greater importance to the viewer of image 100 than is the background imagery. According to the present invention, image 100 is encoded such that, during playback, the video quality of the more-important foreground imagery is greater than the video quality of the less-important background imagery. This variation in playback video quality within an image is achieved by allowing the quantizers used during the video compression processing to encode the macroblocks of image 100 to vary within the image. According to the present invention, the selection of quantizers follows a particular scheme, described as follows.
As shown in FIG. 1, image 100 is divided into three different regions: a foreground region 106 (also referred to as the most-important region) consisting of those macroblocks corresponding to the head of person 102, a background region 108 (also referred to as the least-important region) consisting of macroblocks corresponding to background imagery 104 (including, in this particular example, the shoulders of person 102), and a transition region 110 consisting of macroblocks located between the foreground region and the background region. According to the present invention, all of the macroblocks corresponding to the foreground region 106 are encoded using the same quantizer QP2, all of the macroblocks corresponding to the background region 108 are encoded using the same quantizer QP0, and all of the macroblocks corresponding to the transition region 110 are encoded using the same quantizer QP1, where, typically, QP0>=QP1>=QP2. As such, the most-important, foreground region 106 is typically encoded using more bits per macroblock than the transition region 110, which in turn is typically encoded using more bits per macroblock than the least-important, background region 108. As a result, the foreground region 106 will typically have the highest quality and the background region 108 will typically have the lowest quality during playback of the decoded image data, as is usually desired for applications such as videophone and video-conferencing.
FIG. 2 shows a flow diagram of the processing involved in applying a temporal prediction model during video compression processing, according to one embodiment of the present invention. Depending on the application, the processing of FIG. 2 may be applied to a video compression scheme that segments each image into three regions, such as those shown in FIG. 1. In general, however, the processing of FIG. 2 may be applied in video compression schemes that segment images into any number of regions, including those that treat each image as a single region. For the following discussion, the processing of FIG. 2 will be assumed to be for a video compression scheme that is based on the three regions of FIG. 1.
Processing begins by initializing the quantizer values for the three regions (step 202 of FIG. 2). Depending on the particular implementation, the quantizers for all three regions may be initialized to the same value, for example, conservatively selecting a high (or even the highest possible) quantizer value to ensure initial compliance with target bit rates. Alternatively, the most-important region (i.e., foreground region 106 in FIG. 1) may be assigned a relatively low quantizer value (corresponding to less-severe quantization) and the least-important region (i.e., background region 108) may be assigned a relatively high quantizer value (corresponding to more-severe quantization) to initialize processing at more desirable quantization levels. In some video compression algorithms, the magnitude of the difference in quantizers between successive macroblocks (e.g., following a raster scan pattern through the image) may be limited, e.g., �2, as in the H.263 video compression standard. In such applications, this constraint is taken into account during the initialization of quantizer values.
After initializing the quantizer values, segmentation analysis is applied to the first image (i.e., frame) in the video sequence to identify the three subsets of macroblocks corresponding to the foreground, background, and transition regions, respectively (step 204). Any suitable type of segmentation analysis may be used. Depending on the segmentation analysis employed and the characteristics of the video imagery, each of the three subsets of macroblocks may, but need not correspond to a contiguous set of macroblocks in the image. For example, in a video-conferencing application in which two "talking heads" appear in the image corresponding to two different individuals, the foreground region may consist of two different contiguous sets of macroblocks, each corresponding to the face of a different video-conference participant. Moreover, the general principle of the segmentation scheme of FIG. 1 is that at least one macroblock of the transition region be located between a macroblock of the foreground region and a macroblock of the background region when following a raster scan pattern through the image. As such, the transition region for a particular image may be made up of a relatively large number of non-contiguous sets of macroblocks, as in transition region 110 of FIG. 1 (where sets of macroblocks touching at only a single corner are not considered to be contiguous).
After the first image has been segmented into three sets of macroblocks corresponding to the three regions, the first image is encoded, where the transform coefficients for all of the macroblocks of each region are quantized using the particular quantizer value selected for that region (step 206). This encoding may, but does not have to, involve the selection of alternative quantizer values and the requantization of the transform coefficients, if and when the target bit rate is not met for the frame using the initial selection of quantizers. After the first image is encoded, processing continues to steps 208-216, which are applied sequentially to each of the remaining images in the scene. The processing preferably starts all over again at a scene change from step 202. For an I frame introduced in the middle of a scene, the I frame is encoded using a uniform quantizer which is the average quantizer from the preceding P frame, and no model updates are done. The subsequent P frame uses the model update from the last P frame and processing proceeds. It is as if the I frame did not exist for the purpose of choosing and constraining quantizers for the subsequent P frame.
In step 208, data from the previous frame is used to generate a value for the encoding complexity measure X of each macroblock in the previous frame using Equation (1) as follows:
where R is the number of bits used to encode the macroblock, H is the number of header bits (including motion vector coding bits) used to encode the macroblock, Q is the quantizer level used to encode the macroblock, S is a measure of the distortion of the macroblock, and C is a specifiable constant (e.g., preferably 2.5). The distortion measure S may be any suitable measure of the distortion of the macroblock. For inter-frame encoded data, one possible distortion measure is based on the sum of the absolute differences (SAD) of the inter-frame pixel difference data for the macroblock. For intra-frame encoded data, one possible distortion measure is based on the SAD between the individual pixel values and the mean pixel value for the corresponding block or macroblock. In either case, in Equation (1), the distortion measure S is the average SAD per pixel in the macroblock, translated to the DCT domain. In many cases, the DCT coefficients (before quantization) have a different dynamic range from the original pixel data due to a scaling factor (which is generally 8). Until S reaches a certain threshold, the block will quantize to zero (i.e., none of the coefficients will be significant). This threshold is modeled as 2.5Q, since the actual quantization step size is 2Q, with the rounding used by H.263. This means that S has to be greater than 2.5Q for it to yield at least one non-zero quantized coefficient. Note that this thresholding can be avoided by setting C to 0.
For each region, the encoding complexity values X for the different macroblocks in the region are averaged to generate an average encoding complexity Xave for each region in the previous frame. The previous frame refers to the previously encoded frame. For bi-directionally encoded frames, each complexity value X is derived as an average of the corresponding regions of the forward and backward reference frames.
The average encoding complexity Xave for each region is then used to determine a quantizer value to be used to encode the macroblocks of the corresponding region in the current frame (step 210), using Equation (2) as follows:
where (R−H) corresponds to the target number of bits for encoding each macroblock of the corresponding region of the current frame, Xave is the average encoding complexity for the corresponding region of the previous frame generated using Equation (1), Save is the average distortion measure for the corresponding region of the current frame, and Q is the quantizer value for the corresponding region of the previous frame. The number of header bits (H) is the sum of Hmb (the number of bits in the macroblock mode headers for the previous frame) and Hmv (the number of bits for the motion vectors for the current frame). Any of the parameters that are based on the previous frame (i.e., Xave, Q, and/or Hmb) may be derived from more than just the one previous frame. Equation (2) is applied to different quantizer values in an iterative manner until the frame target bit rate is satisfied to within a specified tolerance range. This can be done iteratively for each region while assuming the maximum difference between quantizer values for different regions allowable under the compression algorithm. Note that the first P frame does not have a history and the average encoding complexities for the previous frame (Xave) are not available. In this case, a "fall-back" mode is preferably used to adapt the quantizers over the frame to meet the target. At that point, the actual bits used for each macroblock within a region are used to initialize the region complexity.
After a quantizer value is selected for each region in the current frame using Equation (2), the quantizer values are adjusted if necessary for both spatial and temporal considerations (step 212). Spatially, the quantizer values generated using Equation (2) may need to be adjusted to ensure that the magnitude of change in quantizer value from one macroblock in one region to the next macroblock in a different region does not exceed the limit, if one exists, imposed by the video compression algorithm. Temporally, the magnitude of change in quantizer values from one region in one frame to the corresponding region in the next frame as generated using Equation (2) is preferably limited to ensure temporal smoothness in quality. For example, the temporal variation of the quantizer for each region may be constrained to 15% of Q when the quantizer value is reduced and to 60% of Q when the quantizer value is increased, where Q can vary from 1 to 31. As a particular example, if the quantizer value for an region in the previous frame was 16, then the quantizer value for the corresponding region in the current frame cannot be less than Q-15%Q=16-(0.15)(16)=13.6 or greater than Q+60%Q=16+(0.60)16=25.6.
After adjusting the quantizer values, segmentation analysis is applied to the current image to identify the three subsets of macroblocks corresponding to the foreground, background, and transition regions, respectively (step 214). After the current image has been segmented into three sets of macroblocks corresponding to the three regions, the current image is encoded, where the transform coefficients for all of the macroblocks of each region are quantized using the particular quantizer value selected for that region (step 216). The processing of steps 214 and 216 for the current image is analogous to the processing of steps 202 and 204 for the first image.
In the embodiment described in conjunction with FIG. 2, the temporal prediction model of Equations (1) and (2) is based on a first-order rate distortion model. In alternative embodiments, higher-order models, such as a closed-form solution for a quadratic rate distortion model, may be used.
The present invention can be embodied in the form of methods and apparatuses for practicing those methods. The present invention can also be embodied in the form of program code embodied in tangible media, such as floppy diskettes, CD-ROMs, hard drives, or any other machine-readable storage medium, wherein, when the program code is loaded into and executed by a machine, such as a computer, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing the invention. The present invention can also be embodied in the form of program code, for example, whether stored in a storage medium, loaded into and/or executed by a machine, or transmitted over some transmission medium or carrier, such as over electrical wiring or cabling, through fiber optics, or via electromagnetic radiation, wherein, when the program code is loaded into and executed by a machine, such as a computer, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing the invention. When implemented on a general-purpose processor, the program code segments combine with the processor to provide a unique device that operates analogously to specific logic circuits.
It will be further understood that various changes in the details, materials, and arrangements of the parts which have been described and illustrated in order to explain the nature of this invention may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principle and scope of the invention as expressed in the following claims.
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Hi there. I apologize if I am getting this format wrong. The link that is posted as the website for Wataru Watanabe does not appear to work. This is probably more an FYI.
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|There are probably thousands of old dead or moved links in the database. This one dropped off the net in 2009 when the hosting service was taken down so I have hidden it.
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I'm sure I've previously suggested the need for some standardised way of of saving dead links and marking them as being from the archive (I can't find any such post however).
It was in the staff forum and didn't get much comment.
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