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ROI-based Video Transmission using Cooperative Diversity over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

무선 Ad-hoc 네트워크에서 협력 다이버시티를 이용한 관심영역 중심의 비디오 전송

  • Jang, Uk (Department of Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Hoon (R&D Center Communication/Platform CFCS Group Samsung Thales Co., LTD.) ;
  • Bae, Kyung-Hoon (Department of Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • 장욱 (연세대학교 전기전자공학부) ;
  • 이상훈 (연세대학교 전기전자공학부) ;
  • 배경훈 (삼성 탈레스)
  • Published : 2008.11.30
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Abstract

Cooperative diversity is a cooperative technique which exploits user diversity by decoding the combined signal of the relayed signal and the direct signal in wireless multi-hop networks. Using the cooperation, the performance of the network system can be improved because cooperative diversity which is very strong against the fading channels can be achieved. In this paper, we propose the technique that provides the enhanced visual quality of the reconstructed video using the cooperative diversity with the FMO which is the error resilience tool of H.264/AVC standardization over wireless networks. The eye-tracker can detect the gaze point of user and transmit the gaze information to the nodes. After receiving the gaze information of user, each node performs ROI encoding according to the received gaze information. After encoding, video sources are divided into ROI and Non-ROI. Through the simulation results, the better visual quality of the reconstructed video is achieved when ROI and Non-ROI are transmitted through different channels.

협력 통신은 각 노드가 데이터를 협력하여 전송하는 것으로, 자신의 노드 뿐 만 아니라 주변의 다른 노드들을 이용하여 데이터를 전송하는 통신 방식이다. 협력 통신을 하고 있는 모든 이동 노드로 부터 기지국으로 수신된 데이터를 결합하여 협력 다이버시티를 얻으므로 열악한 무선채널 환경에서 발생하는 극심한 페이딩을 억제시킴으로써 사용자의 QoS를 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC에서 제공하는 에러에 대한 복원력을 높이기 위한 여러 가지 방식 중에서 유동적 매크로블록 순서화를 이용하고, 무선 채널에서는 협동 다이버시티를 이용하여 비디오 전송을 통해 화질을 향상 시킬 수 있는 기술을 제안한다. 사용자는 눈동자 추적기를 착용하고 있어서 소스 노드에게 현재 눈동자의 위치를 주기적으로 전송하고, 소스 노드는 그에 맞는 관심 영역 중심 코딩을 하게 된다. 관심영역과 비 관심영역으로 구분된 비디오를 서로 다른 채널을 통해서 전송함으로써 화질측면에서 더 높은 만족도를 얻게 됨을 확인하였다.

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