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Error Concealment Method for MPEG-4 Video in Wireless Environment

무선환경에서 MPEG-4 영상의 오류은닉 방법

  • Park, Sun-Young (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Sejong University) ;
  • Song, Joon-Ho (Varo Vision Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Moon, Joo-Hee (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Sejong University)
  • 박선영 (世綜大學敎 情報通信工學科) ;
  • 송준호 (바로비젼(주)) ;
  • 문주희 (世綜大學敎 情報通信工學科)
  • Published : 2002.11.01
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Abstract

Recently, many advanced video application services over the mobile wireless networks have required a transcoder which can efficiently reduce the size of compressed video bitstreams. The transcoder can be worked in either the spatial domain or the DCT domain. In this paper, we propose a new fast hybrid-type transcoder which can efficiently reduce the frame size with keeping the visual quality. The proposed scheme consists of two major processes: a transform domain process and a spatial domain process. We also propose a scheme for coding mode selection and motion vector refinement. Experimental results show that our approach can reduce the computational complexity more than any other conventional spatial-domain transcoder with keeping the visual quality.

전송 오류율이 높은 이동통신 환경에서 동영상 서비스를 제공하려면 전송오류에 대한 검출 및 은닉이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-4 동영상 비트열을 구성하는 비디오 패킷 데이터가 손실되었을 때, 수신단에서 간단히 손상된 영상을 복구해낼 수 있는 적응적 오류은닉 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은, 손실된 비디오 패킷에 포함되었을 매크로블록의 개수가 영상의 움직임 특성을 반영한다는 사실을 이용하여, 블록 반복 및 움직임 보상을 적응적으로 사용하므로써 영상 오류를 은닉하게 된다. 실험 결과, 제안 방법은 영상에 존재하는 움직임 특성에 따라 효과적으로 사용됨을 알 수 있었다. 일반적으로 손쉽게 사용될 수 있는 블록 반복 은닉 방법 혹은 움직임 보상 은닉 방법과 비교하여 최대 1dB 이상의 화질 개선이 있었으며, 주관적 화질 측면에서도 우수한 결과를 얻었다.

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