Edge-Enhanced Streaming: Distributed Video Up-scaling in Constrained Environments
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Abstract
In the face of growing demands for high-quality digital media, enhancing video streaming quality remains a significant challenge, particularly in environments with diverse internet connectivity and limited bandwidth. This paper proposes the Edge-enhanced Streaming (EES) scheme, which leverages edge computing and machine learning to upscale low-bitrate video frames to higher resolutions. Utilizing the distributed computational power of edge devices such as smartphones and laptops, our methodology involves segmenting each video frame into smaller sub-frames. These sub-frames are then processed using a Super-Resolution (SR) machine learning model across available edge devices within the network. This approach optimizes underutilized computational resources, improves processing times, and reduces energy consumption, making it a highly suitable approach for real-time video streaming applications. Furthermore, to address the challenge of device reliability, we incorporate a task replication strategy, ensuring consistent quality improvements even with potential fluctuations in device availability. We evaluate our proposed scheme using the PRIM dataset from the PIRM-SR Challenge. Extensive simulations demonstrate significant enhancements in video quality, confirming the effectiveness of our distributed SR technique in overcoming bandwidth constraints and improving user experience.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".