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

Table 5

Maximum (across quantization scales) of maximum (across five video sequences), and maximum of mean CoV and PtM values of H.264 SVC and MPEG-4 Part 2 spatial base and enhancement layers, and aggregated traffic.

Encoder	max	max	max	max
	CoVmax	PtMmax	CoV	PtM
Spatial base layer (QCIF)
H.264 SVC	2.26	29.95	1.88	20.85
MPEG-4	1.57	20.27	1.33	15.00
Spatial enhancement layer 1 (CIF)
H.264 SVC	2.63	49.05	2.17	28.19
MPEG-4	1.43	21.55	1.03	12.77
Aggregated (base + enhancement) traffic (CIF)
H.264 SVC	2.36	39.95	2.01	24.58
MPEG-4	1.38	21.14	1.06	13.08
Single-layer (CIF)
H.264 SVC	2.63	45.14	2.15	28.04
MPEG-4	1.41	19.21	1.15	13.56