Systematic lossy forward error protection for error-resilient digital video broadcasting

Shantanu D. Rane; Anne Aaron; Bernd Girod

doi:10.1117/12.527301

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18 January 2004 Systematic lossy forward error protection for error-resilient digital video broadcasting

Shantanu D. Rane, Anne Aaron, Bernd Girod

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Proceedings Volume 5308, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2004; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527301
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

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We present a novel scheme for error-resilient digital video broadcasting,using the Wyner-Ziv coding paradigm. We apply the general framework of systematic lossy source-channel coding to generate a supplementary bitstream that can correct transmission errors in the decoded video waveform up to a certain residual distortion. The systematic portion consists of a conventional MPEG-coded bitstream, which is transmitted over the error-prone channel without forward error correction.The supplementary bitstream is a low rate representation of the transmitted video sequence generated using Wyner-Ziv encoding. We use the conventionally decoded error-concealed MPEG video sequence as side information to decode the Wyner-Ziv bits. The decoder combines the error-prone side information and the Wyner-Ziv description to yield an improved decoded video signal. Our results indicate that, over a large range of channel error probabilities, this scheme yields superior video quality when compared with traditional forward error correction techniques employed in digital video broadcasting.

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Shantanu D. Rane, Anne Aaron, and Bernd Girod "Systematic lossy forward error protection for error-resilient digital video broadcasting", Proc. SPIE 5308, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2004, (18 January 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527301

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