An Action-Aware Combat Model for Efficient Video Compression of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games on Cloud Gaming Platforms

Cloud gaming is a rising new trend for remote video gaming. Players send their commands using a thin-client device to a graphics rendering cloud server and receive a compressed video stream in response. However, video games with complex textures and motions, especially at high resolutions, require a substantial bitrate to deliver good visual quality. When the player’s Internet connection is constr...