Rate-adaptive compressive video acquisition with sliding-window total-variation-minimization reconstruction

We consider a compressive video acquisition system where frame blocks are sensed independently. Varying block sparsity is exploited in the form of individual per-block open-loop sampling rate allocation with minimal system overhead. At the decoder, video frames are reconstructed via sliding-window inter-frame total variation minimization. Experimental results demonstrate that such rate-adaptive compressive video acquisition improves noticeably the rate-distortion performance of the video stream over fixed-rate acquisition approaches.