# Prediction-assistant Frame Super-Resolution for Video Streaming

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09455 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.09455/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 36 of its 59 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Mar 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 36)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Densely Connected Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.06993/) (2016)
- [Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.04802/) (2016)
- [Enhanced Deep Residual Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.02921/) (2017)
- [Image Super-Resolution Using Very Deep Residual Channel Attention Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.02758/) (2018)
- [Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1501.00092/) (2014)
- [PWC-Net: CNNs for Optical Flow Using Pyramid, Warping, and Cost Volume](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.02371/) (2017)
- [Accurate Image Super-Resolution Using Very Deep Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.04587/) (2015)
- [Residual Dense Network for Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.08797/) (2018)
- [FlowNet 2.0: Evolution of Optical Flow Estimation with Deep Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.01925/) (2016)
- [Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.09078/) (2017)
- [EDVR: Video Restoration with Enhanced Deformable Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02716/) (2019)
- [Accelerating the Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.00367/) (2016)
- [Future Frame Prediction for Anomaly Detection -- A New Baseline](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.09867/) (2017)
- [Learning Texture Transformer Network for Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.04139/) (2020)
- [Super SloMo: High Quality Estimation of Multiple Intermediate Frames for Video Interpolation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.00080/) (2017)
- [Deeply-Recursive Convolutional Network for Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.04491/) (2015)
- [Deep multi-scale video prediction beyond mean square error](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.05440/) (2015)
- [Stochastic Video Generation with a Learned Prior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.07687/) (2018)
- [Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.00830/) (2019)
- [TDAN: Temporally Deformable Alignment Network for Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02898/) (2018)
- [Video Frame Synthesis using Deep Voxel Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1702.02463/) (2017)
- [Deep Predictive Coding Networks for Video Prediction and Unsupervised Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.08104/) (2016)
- [Frame-Recurrent Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.04590/) (2018)
- [Non-Local Recurrent Network for Image Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.02919/) (2018)
- [Real-Time Video Super-Resolution with Spatio-Temporal Networks and Motion Compensation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.05250/) (2016)
- [Context-aware Synthesis for Video Frame Interpolation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.10967/) (2018)
- [Quadratic video interpolation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.00627/) (2019)
- [MEMC-Net: Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation Driven Neural Network for Video Interpolation and Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.08768/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [H2-Stereo: High-Speed, High-Resolution Stereoscopic Video System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.02436/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Video frame transmission delay is critical in real-time applications such as online video gaming, live show, etc. The receiving deadline of a new frame must catch up with the frame rendering time. Otherwise, the system will buffer a while, and the user will encounter a frozen screen, resulting in unsatisfactory user experiences. An effective approach is to transmit frames in lower-quality under poor bandwidth conditions, such as using scalable video coding. In this paper, we propose to enhance video quality using lossy frames in two situations. First, when current frames are too late to receive before rendering deadline (i.e., lost), we propose to use previously received high-resolution images to predict the future frames. Second, when the quality of the currently received frames is low~(i.e., lossy), we propose to use previously received high-resolution frames to enhance the low-quality current ones. For the first case, we propose a small yet effective video frame prediction network. For the second case, we improve the video prediction network to a video enhancement network to associate current frames as well as previous frames to restore high-quality images. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method performs favorably against state-of-the-art algorithms in the lossy video streaming environment.