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H.265 Video Encoding Analysis
Award last edited on: 1/21/2020

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Army
Total Award Amount
$599,982
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
A18-125
Principal Investigator
Pankaj N Topiwala

Company Information

Fastvdo LLC

3097 Cortona Drive
Melbourne, FL 32940
   (321) 355-7376
   contact@fastvdo.com
   www.fastvdo.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 08
County: Brevard

Phase I

Contract Number: W911W6-19-C-0014
Start Date: 1/10/2019    Completed: 7/15/2019
Phase I year
2019
Phase I Amount
$99,982
FastVDO will develop a software testbed to simulate communications of full motion video over wireless links. In particular, FastVDO will study the effects of channel errors on the transmission of compressed video, specifically with H.264 and H.265 compression. The received video will be analyzed for qualityusing a variety of tools and metrics, and a quantitative analysis will be made of theerror resilience capabilities of these codecs.VIDEO COMPRESSION,H.265/HEVC,wireless communication,channel errors,H.264

Phase II

Contract Number: W911W6-20-C-0019
Start Date: 10/31/2019    Completed: 8/2/2021
Phase II year
2020
Phase II Amount
$500,000
The proliferation of airborne imaging sensor platforms, especially unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), critical for Information Dominance, means that ISR imagery volumes are growing exponentially, while tactical data link bandwidths become ever scarcer. This puts a premium on optimizing the utility of the available TCDL capacity. Since full motion video (FMV) is currently the single largest image data generator, on-board compression of FMV is a critical enabling technology. But an important further complication is that the tactical data link, being wireless, is not error free. Instead, it can suffer packet losses as bit errors, which can significantly degrade the value of transmitted video data. H.264 seems to be more resilient than H.265, due to its lower complexity design. In phase 2, we test: with a powerful half-rate forward error correction (FEC) scheme used in the Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL), can H.265 finally surpass H.264?