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Published on: August 1, 2017
Lossy compression of infrared videos in WEST (W Environment in Steady-state Tokamak)
Victor Moncada1, Xavier Courtois1, Leo Dubus1
1CEA-IRFM, F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France.
Abstract:
During the 2019 C4 experimental campaign of the WEST (W Environment in Steady-state Tokamak) (France), the infrared diagnostic produced more than seven terabytes of uncompressed video data. Constraints on the computer infrastructure required for storage, backup, and especially offline access to infrared videos made the use of a compression algorithm mandatory. This paper proposes an innovative method to compress infrared videos with controlled temperature precision. This compression method is based on a controlled averaging of the video that maximizes the compression potential of standard lossless video codecs such as H264/AVC or HEVC. The combination of the loss introduction algorithm and the H264/AVC lossless video codec obtains the best compression ratio in the range of 8 to 41 with a maximum temperature error of 2 °C. This method also outperforms the JPEG-LS algorithm in terms of compression ratio and image quality for the same temperature precision.
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