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ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF SNR-SCALABLE STRATEGIES FOR MOTION COMPENSATED VIDEO CODERS Josep Prades-Nebot †, Gregory W. Cook ‡ and Edward J. Delp‡ † Departamento de Comunicaciones ‡ Video and Image Processing Laboratory (VIPER) ´ Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Purdue University Valencia 46071, SPAIN West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285, USA jprades@dcom.upv.es cook@ieee.org, ace@purdue.ecn.edu ABSTRACT transmitter and the receiver have different reference frames, pre- In this paper, an analysis of the efficiency of three signal-to-noise diction drift is introduced (unless R = Rmax) which reduces the ratio (SNR) scalable strategies for motion compensated video efficiency. In Scalable Encodings Above the Loop Rate (SALR), prediction drift is avoided by setting Rl = R = Rmin . This coders and their non-scalable counterpart is presented. After as- l suming some models and hypotheses with respect to the signals is the scalable strategy used in the fine granular scalability (FGS) and systems involved, we have obtained the SNR of each coding profile of the MPEG-4 standard [2]. In a SALR coder, the refer- strategy as a function of the decoding rate. To validate our anal- ence frames s are decoded at Rmin which limits the quality of the ysis, we have compared our the