On the Interplay of Foveated Rendering and Video Encoding

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2020-11-01
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en
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VRST '20: 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
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Humans have sharp central vision but low peripheral visual acuity. Prior work has taken advantage of this phenomenon in two ways: foveated rendering (FR) reduces the computational workload of rendering by producing lower visual quality for peripheral regions and foveated video encoding (FVE) reduces the bitrate of streamed video through heavier compression of peripheral regions. Remote rendering systems require both rendering and video encoding and the two techniques can be combined to reduce both computing and bandwidth consumption. We report early results from such a combination with remote VR rendering. The results highlight that FR causes large bitrate overhead when combined with normal video encoding but combining it with FVE can mitigate it.
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Gazi Karam Illahi , G , Siekkinen , M , Kämäräinen , T & Ylä-Jääski , A 2020 , On the Interplay of Foveated Rendering and Video Encoding . in S N Spencer (ed.) , Proceedings - VRST 2020 : ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology . , 66 , ACM , ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology , Virtual, Online , 01/11/2020 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3385956.3422126