This paper proposes an improved source-splitting-based two-rate M-channel multiple description coding scheme, where the source is split into M subsets. In each description, one subset is coded at a high rate, and othe...
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(纸本)9781479903573
This paper proposes an improved source-splitting-based two-rate M-channel multiple description coding scheme, where the source is split into M subsets. In each description, one subset is coded at a high rate, and others are predictively coded at a low rate. Uniform offsets among low-rate quantizers of different descriptions are achieved by employing unequal deadzones and by quantizing the predictions. When several descriptions are received, the optimal reconstruction of each subset is achieved by finding the intersection of all received quantization bins. The closed-form expression of the expected distortion is obtained. The proposed scheme is applied to lapped transform-based multipledescription image coding and achieves improved performance. The optimal deadzone selection and its impact are also given in this paper.
The problem of robust distributed source coding for three correlated sources is studied in this work. A lattice-based scheme is proposed and the analysis of its performance is provided in the high resolution regime. S...
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The problem of robust distributed source coding for three correlated sources is studied in this work. A lattice-based scheme is proposed and the analysis of its performance is provided in the high resolution regime. Special attention is paid to the degenerate case where the three sources are Gaussian and identical. In this case, our scheme is shown to achieve within an asymptotic gap of 0.069 bits in terms of rate per description from the information-theoretic limit of quadratic symmetric Gaussian multiple description coding with central and individual decoders, when the side distortion and the ratio between the central and side distortions both approach 0.
Both scalable video coding (SVC) and multiple description coding (MDC) have been evaluated in the literature for adaptive streaming over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. However, these evaluations have used either unreali...
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(纸本)9781479923410
Both scalable video coding (SVC) and multiple description coding (MDC) have been evaluated in the literature for adaptive streaming over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. However, these evaluations have used either unrealistic or too specific P2P topologies or omitted considering key video coding parameters such as compression efficiency and redundancy. In this study, we evaluate the performances of SVC, MDC and scalable multiple description coding (SMDC) with network-level adaptation schemes under varying peer bandwidth, average end-to-end delay, and peer exit ratio, as well as MDC redundancy levels. Extensive test results help us to reach conclusions regarding under which conditions SVC, MDC or SMDC should be preferred to achieve a reliable video service over mesh P2P overlays.
A novel H.264-based multiple description coding (MDC) framework, called data reuse MDC (DR-MDC), is proposed in this paper. The input video sequence is first down-sampled by a factor of two in both horizontal and vert...
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(纸本)9781479923410
A novel H.264-based multiple description coding (MDC) framework, called data reuse MDC (DR-MDC), is proposed in this paper. The input video sequence is first down-sampled by a factor of two in both horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, on each frame to generate four sub-sequences, followed by grouping them into two descriptions via the quincunx manner. In each description, one sub-sequence is directly encoded by applying the H.264/AVC encoder, while the other is examined at each macroblock (MB) to determine whether the encoding of the current MB should be conducted or skipped completely based on the following criterion: If the MB is considered locating in a homogeneous or still background region, the encoding process will be skipped. Otherwise, the neighboring prediction algorithm will be used to predict the pixel values of this MB, and the resultant prediction errors will be further encoded and transmitted. Experimental results have shown that the proposed DR-MDC scheme is more error resilient and yields better reconstructed video than the existing state-of-the-art MDC methods.
This work presents an LDGM-based practical successive coding scheme for the multipledescription (MD) problem for finite alphabet sources. The scheme, which targets the Zhang-Berger (ZB) rate-distortion region, is sho...
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This work presents an LDGM-based practical successive coding scheme for the multipledescription (MD) problem for finite alphabet sources. The scheme, which targets the Zhang-Berger (ZB) rate-distortion region, is shown to be asymptotically optimal with joint typicality encoding, while as a practical encoding solution a message passing algorithm is adopted. We further discuss in more detail the application of the coding scheme in three cases of the MD problem with the Hamming distortion measure: 1) no excess sum-rate for binary sources, 2) successive refinement, and 3) no excess marginal rate for the uniform binary source. In the no excess sum-rate case some progress is made in the characterization of fundamental limits by deriving the analytical expression of the distortion region for general binary sources, and of the auxiliary variables needed to achieve its boundary. The exact expression of the Zhang-Berger upper bound to the central distortion is also provided for the case of no excess marginal rate for the uniform binary source. The proposed LDGM-based coding scheme is tested in practice for all three aforementioned cases. The experimental results show very good performance, demonstrating its ability to approach the theoretical rate-distortion limits or the available upper bounds.
In this paper, an MDC scheme based on forward error correction(FEC) within expanding windows is proposed. Firstly, the video sequence will be coded into source packets with/without slice group enabled. Secondly, the a...
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(纸本)9781479923410
In this paper, an MDC scheme based on forward error correction(FEC) within expanding windows is proposed. Firstly, the video sequence will be coded into source packets with/without slice group enabled. Secondly, the appropriate FEC packets are inserted according to the packet loss rate. Since the previous frames in a GOP is generally more important than the following frames in the GOP, an expanding window is exploited so that the FEC packets for the current frame will also protect the previous frames in the window. After this, the source packets with the inserted FEC packets will be divided into two descriptions and transmitted into two independent channels. When some packets in one description are lost, FEC decoding will try to recover the lost packets. Through this scheme, the source packets can get appropriate protection while the compression efficiency will not be degraded too much. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the compared schemes up to 3dB.
In this paper a novel region of interest (ROI) based scalable multipledescription image coding technique using multipledescription scalar quantizer with successive refinement (MDSQ-SR) is proposed. Visual attention ...
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(纸本)9781479934560;9781479934577
In this paper a novel region of interest (ROI) based scalable multipledescription image coding technique using multipledescription scalar quantizer with successive refinement (MDSQ-SR) is proposed. Visual attention model using graph based visual saliency is used to find the region of interest in the image. ROI based scalable multipledescriptions are then generated by selecting different refinement layers of the side quantizer of MDSQ-SR for the interested and uninterested regions of the image. More number of refinement layers are selected for the interested part as compared to the uninterested part. However, the different refinement layer selection is performed in such a way that the rate distortion constraints of the multiple description coding are satisfied i.e. the joint decoding quality is better than the side decoding quality at particular rate. The proposed scheme is evaluated under lossless and lossy channel conditions. In lossless channels conditions, PSNR of the decoded image using region of interest based scalable multipledescription image coding is increased by 0.6 dB when compared with scalable multipledescription image coding using MDSQ-SR. The average PSNR improvement of the proposed scheme is almost 0.7dB under lossy channel conditions.
multiple description coding (MDC) is an error resilient video coding method suitable for real-time applications when retransmission is unacceptable. A four description MDC architecture is described with temporal and s...
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(纸本)9781479902941
multiple description coding (MDC) is an error resilient video coding method suitable for real-time applications when retransmission is unacceptable. A four description MDC architecture is described with temporal and spatial error concealment capabilities at the decoder. In this paper, we present an adaptive error concealment method using error estimation. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.
It is shown that the coding problem for an arbitrary point on the dominant face of an L-description El Gamal-Cover (EGC) region can be converted to that for a vertex of a K-description EGC region for some K <= 2L -...
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It is shown that the coding problem for an arbitrary point on the dominant face of an L-description El Gamal-Cover (EGC) region can be converted to that for a vertex of a K-description EGC region for some K <= 2L - 1, where the latter problem can be solved via successive coding. A practical scheme is proposed for the quadratic Gaussian case by reducing each step in successive coding to a Gaussian quantization operation and implementing such an operation using low-density generator matrix codes. The effectiveness of this scheme is verified through extensive simulation experiments.
A channel adaptive multipledescription video codec is presented with flexible redundancy allocation based on modeling and minimization of the end-to-end distortion. We employ a three-loop multiple description coding ...
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A channel adaptive multipledescription video codec is presented with flexible redundancy allocation based on modeling and minimization of the end-to-end distortion. We employ a three-loop multiple description coding scheme for which we develop models that estimate the rate-distortion performance of the side encoders as well as the overall end-to-end distortion given channel statistics. A simple yet effective algorithm is formulated for determining appropriate levels of redundancy given a total bit rate and channel estimates in the form of packet error rates. The experimental results presented validate the proposed models over various channels conditions. The performance and adaptivity of the codec is evaluated through extensive simulations with a 2 x 2 wireless multiple input multiple output system. A gain of more than 10 dB can be achieved compared to a non-adaptive system and even larger gains can be had relative to typical single description transmissions.
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