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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2008.13.2.188

Lightweight video coding using spatial correlation and symbol-level error-correction channel code  

Ko, Bong-Hyuck (School of Information & Communication Eng., Sungkyunkwan University)
Shim, Hiuk-Jae (School of Information & Communication Eng., Sungkyunkwan University)
Jeon, Byeung-Woo (School of Information & Communication Eng., Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.13, no.2, 2008 , pp. 188-199 More about this Journal
Abstract
In conventional video coding, encoder complexity is much higher than that of decoder. However, investigations for lightweight encoder to eliminate motion prediction/compensation claiming most complexity in encoder have recently become an important issue. The Wyner-Ziv coding is one of the representative schemes for the problem and, in this scheme, since encoder generates only parity bits of a current frame without performing any type of processes extracting correlation information between frames, it has an extremely simple structure compared to conventional coding techniques. However, in Wyner-Ziv coding, channel decoding errors occur when noisy side information is used in channel decoding process. These channel decoding errors appear more frequently, especially, when there is not enough correlation between frames to generate accurate side information and, as a result, those errors look like Salt & Pepper type noise in the reconstructed frame. Since this noise severely deteriorates subjective video quality even though such noise rarely occurs, previously we proposed a computationally extremely light encoding method based on selective median filter that corrects such noise using spatial correlation of a frame. However, in the previous method, there is a problem that loss of texture from filtering may exceed gain from error correction by the filter for video sequences having complex torture. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an improved lightweight encoding method that minimizes loss of texture detail from filtering by allowing information of texture and that of noise in side information to be utilized by the selective median filter. Our experiments have verified average PSNR gain of up to 0.84dB compared to the previous method.
Keywords
DSC; DVC; Wyner-Ziv coding; Turbo decoding error; Selective median filter;
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