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Hierarchical Search-based Fast Schemes for Consecutive Block Error Concealment  

Jeon Soo-Yeol (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
Sohn Chae-Bong (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
Oh Seoung-Jun (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
Ahn Chang-Beom (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.9, no.4, 2004 , pp. 446-454 More about this Journal
Abstract
With the growth of multimedia systems, compressing image data has become more important in the area of multimedia services. Since a compressed image bitstream can often be seriously distorted by various types of channel noise, an error concealment algorithm becomes a very important issue. In order to solve this problem, Hsia proposed the error concealment algorithm where he recovered lost block data using 1D boundary matching vectors. His algorithm, however, requires high computational complexity since each matching vector needs MAD (Mean Absolute Difference) values of all pixels, which is either a boundary line top or a boundary line bottom of a damaged block. We propose a hierarchical search-based fast error concealment scheme as well as its approximated version to reduce computational time. In the proposed scheme, a hierarchical search is applied to reduce the number of checking points for searching a vector. The error concealment schemes proposed in this paper can be about 3 times faster than Hsia's with keeping visual quality and PSNR.
Keywords
Error concealment; Hierarchical search; Image coding; Spatial interpolation;
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