Adaptive Leaky Factor Determination for Robust Video Transmission over Error-Prone Networks

When video packets are transmitted over error-prone networks, the leaky prediction can be used to mitigate the effect of error propagation. The leaky factor provides trade-off between coding efficiency and error resilience in the leaky prediction. In this paper, we propose an improved leaky prediction method where the leaky factor is adaptively determined for each frame by minimizing the estimated end-to-end distortion at the encoder. Experimental results show that the proposed method with the adaptive leaky factor shows the better performance of the error robustness as compared with the conventional method.