SVC Demystified, a lecture given in the RADVISION Unified Communication Summit 2009

1. The Secrets of Scalable Video Coding Sagee Ben-Zedeff Technology Researcher

2. Agenda SVC demystified The promise of SVC The RADVISION Solution

3. SVC Demystified Scalable Video Coding for Visual Communications

4. The Evolution of Visual Communications 1990 2003 H.263+/++ H.263 H.261 H.264 MPEG 4 MPEG 2 MPEG 1

5. VC Evolution Is a BIG Challenge FPS bitrate 1080p(1080x1920 pixels)60 FPS 5Mbps 720p (720x1280 pixels)30 FPS 2Mbps CIF (352x288 pixels)20 FPS 256Kbps qCIF (176x144 pixels)15 FPS 64Kbps resolution

6. One Stream to Feed Them All… Generate a single video stream that can serve multiple users with different capabilities “One ring to rule them all”

7. Scalable Video Coding to the Rescue Temporal - Change of frame rate (e.g 30 FPS, 15 FPS) Spatial - Change of resolution (e.g 720p, 480p, CIF) Fidelity / SNR - Change of quality (e.g 2 Mbps, 784 kbps)

8. Introducing H.264/SVC May 2003: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC completed Oct 2003: H.264/SVC - Scalable Video Coding extension Covers Temporal, Spatial and Fidelity scalability July 2007: “Scalable Video Coding” approved as H.264 Amdt. 3 or Annex G

9. The Promise of SVC Great Quality Over Any Network

10. Why a Layered Structure? Single Layer (e.g 720p@30 FPS) H.264 Enhancement Layer (e.g 720p@30 FPS) SVC Enhancement Layer (e.g CIF@30 FPS) Base Layer (e.g qCIF@15 FPS)

11. Layer Thinning The process of removing video layers done by a Media Aware Network Element (MANE) Enhancement Layer(720p@30 FPS) MANE Enhancement Layer (CIF@30 FPS) Enhancement Layer (720p@30 FPS) Base Layer (qCIF@15 FPS) Base Layer (qCIF@15 FPS)

12. The Hidden Promise of SVC The layered structure of SVC introduces higher level of error resilience H.264 SVC H.264 The layered structure of SVC allows Unequal Error Protection (UEP)

13. The RADVISION Scalable Solution Complete Video Solution at Your Hand

14. SVC is Not Just a Single Cake SVC Signaling Transport Unequal Error Protection

15. RADVISION’s Scalable Video Engine at a Glance SVC Signaling IIE H.264 SVC Encoder Bandwidth Estimation H.264 SVCDecoder SVC RTP Payload Format IETF Draft 16 UEP FEC Add-On Retransmission Add-On RS RFC5109 DST SRC TX RX NetworkAdaptation Media Control Add-On AJB RTCP-FB RTCP-XR Transport RTP / RTCP Session API FW/NATTraversal UDP TCP HTTP(S) Tunneling Common Core

16. A Complete Scalable Solution SCOPIA DESKTOP SCOPIA DESKTOP SCOPIAElite VC240

17. A Complete Scalable Solution SVC Based Desktop Clients Rest of the world ROOM SYSTEMS SCOPIA DESKTOP TELEPRESENCE SCOPIA DESKTOP VC240 UNIFIED COMMUMICATIONS

18. all this and more: http://www.videooverenterprise.com Thank You