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A Bit-Error Resilient Wavelet Video Coding Scheme in Wireless Channels

무선 채널의 비트 에러에 강한 웨이블릿 비디오 코딩 기법

  • 이주경 (부산대학교 전자계산학과) ;
  • 정기동 (부산대학교 전자계산학과)
  • Published : 2003.12.01
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Abstract

A wavelet-based video stream is more susceptible to the network transmission errors than DCT-based video. This is because bit-errors in a subband of a video frame affect not only the other subbands within the current frame but also the subsequent frames. In this paper, we propose a video source coding scheme called IPC(Intra Prediction Coding) scheme in order to reduce the error propagation to the subsequent frames. In the proposed scheme, a subband except LL subband in the current frame refers to the lower-level subband within the same frame. This reduces the error propagation to subsequent frames. We evaluated the performance of our proposed scheme in the simulated wireless network environment. As a result of tests, it was shown that the proposed algorithm shows better performance than MRME in a heavy motion image sequence while IPC outperforms MRME at a high bit-rate in small motion image sequence.

웨이블릿 기반 비디오는 DCT 기반 비디오에 비해 전송오류에 더 민감하다. 즉, 어떤 프레임의 부대역에 오류가 발생하면 같은 프레임의 다른 부대역뿐 아니라 그 프레임을 참조하는 이후 프레임의 복원에도 영향을 주어 비디오의 화질이 감소하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 프레임 간 참조를 수행하는 웨이블릿 비디오의 오류 전파를 줄이기 위해 프레임 내 참조 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 LL 부대역을 제외한 나머지 부대역에서 같은 프레임의 하위 부대역을 참조하여 다른 프레임으로의 오류전파를 줄인다. 무선 채널에서의 비트 에러 패턴을 이용하여 모의실험을 수행한 결과 화면의 움직임이 빠른 비디오에서는 제안된 기법의 성능이 압축율에 관계없이 우수하였으며 화면의 움직임이 거의 없는 비디오에서는 비트율이 높은 경우에 성능이 높은 것으로 나타났다.

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