Publication detail

Software and Hardware Encoding of Omnidirectional 8K Video: A Performance Study

KUFA, J. POLÁK, L. ŠIMKA, M. ŠTECH, A.

Original Title

Software and Hardware Encoding of Omnidirectional 8K Video: A Performance Study

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Omnidirectional (360-degree) video streaming has been on the rise dramatically in recent years. As a result, demand on the monitoring and evaluation of the visual quality of such videos is rapidly increasing. This paper deals with the performance study of hardware and software encoders for 360° video in resolution 8K, especially in terms of encoding speed on a consumer computer. New encoding standards significantly improve encoding efficiency, but also increase encoding time due to increased computational complexity. In this work, different implementations of the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) for 360° videos at 8K resolution are compared. Next, quality presets that balance visual quality and encoding speed at the same bitrate are also considered. Netflix's Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF) objective metric is used to measure video quality. Furthermore, attention is devoted to the study of power consumption and encoding speed, considering CPU and GPU performance limitations. The results show that hardware encoders can encode 8K 360° videos in real-time with quality comparable to software encoding using x265 compression. However, the encoding speed is approximately 20 times faster.

Keywords

8K; virtual reality; 360° video; objective video quality, VMAF

Authors

KUFA, J.; POLÁK, L.; ŠIMKA, M.; ŠTECH, A.

Released

19. 4. 2023

Location

Pardubice

ISBN

979-8-3503-9834-2

Book

33rd International Conference Radioelektronika

Pages from

1

Pages to

5

Pages count

5

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10109035

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT183386,
  author="Jan {Kufa} and Ladislav {Polák} and Marek {Šimka} and Adam {Štech}",
  title="Software and Hardware Encoding of Omnidirectional 8K Video: A Performance Study",
  booktitle="33rd International Conference Radioelektronika",
  year="2023",
  pages="5",
  address="Pardubice",
  doi="10.1109/RADIOELEKTRONIKA57919.2023.10109035",
  isbn="979-8-3503-9834-2",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10109035"
}