FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR VIDEO CODING - A common solution

Antonio Navarro, João Tavares

2004

Abstract

Joint source-channel coding solutions has proved to provided better performance than dealing with both coding processes separately. Such improvement is achieved by jointly minimizing at the source encoder the channel effects. In this paper, we present an adaptive scheme for forward error protection of any video coding standard. The channel coding rate changes according to the channel bit error rate (BER). The results are impressive. For instance, a PSNR gain of about 16.7 dB is obtained at BER=10-2 for “Foreman” video sequence, encoded either by H.263 or by MPEG-4 and protected using the Common scheme in comparison to the unprotected case. As our proposed scheme is common to all video standards, it obviously provides some video quality degradation but still acceptable. We have assessed the quality degradation of the Common solution in comparison to the optimal scheme of protection, which uses a finite number of channel codes. Additionally, we propose a protection solution tailored to H.263/MPEG-4 video coding with an average PSNR improvement of about 0.2 dB relatively to the above mentioned Common solution.

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Navarro A. and Tavares J. (2004). FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR VIDEO CODING - A common solution . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 331-336. DOI: 10.5220/0001401603310336


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@conference{icete04,
author={Antonio Navarro and João Tavares},
title={FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR VIDEO CODING - A common solution },
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={331-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001401603310336},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,
TI - FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR VIDEO CODING - A common solution
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Navarro A.
AU - Tavares J.
PY - 2004
SP - 331
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0001401603310336