Traffic and Quality Characterization of the H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding Extension

Table 3

Maximum (over quantization scales) of maximum (over video sequences), and maximum of mean CoV and PtM values of H.264 SVC and MPEG-4 Part 2 temporal base and enhancement layers (unsmoothed and smoothed (𝑎)).

Encoder	max	max	max	max	max	max	max	max
	CoVmax	PtMmax	CoV	PtM	CoV^(𝑎)max	PtM^(𝑎)max	CoV^(𝑎)	PtM^(𝑎)
Temporal base layer with 𝑎=4 for smoothing
H.264 SVC	3.28	39.93	2.99	34.18	1.39	9.98	1.22	8.55
MPEG-4	2.81	29.88	2.61	25.21	1.11	7.47	0.97	6.3
Temporal enhancement layer 1 with 𝑎=4 for smoothing
H.264 SVC	3.79	79.70	3.09	55.41	1.68	19.92	1.27	13.85
MPEG-4	2.85	55.56	2.49	32.61	1.13	13.89	0.89	8.15
Temporal enhancement layer 2 with 𝑎=2 for smoothing
H.264 SVC	3.36	64.00	2.44	42.98	2.27	32.00	1.57	21.49
MPEG-4	2.04	26.84	1.66	18.28	1.25	13.42	0.93	9.14