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Low Complexity Video Encoding Using Turbo Decoding Error Concealments for Sensor Network Application  

Ko, Bong-Hyuck (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Shim, Hyuk-Jae (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Jeon, Byeung-Woo (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Abstract
In conventional video coding, the complexity of encoder is much higher than that of decoder. However, as more needs arises for extremely simple encoder in environments having constrained energy such as sensor network, much investigation has been carried out for eliminating motion prediction/compensation claiming most complexity and energy in encoder. The Wyner-Ziv coding, one of the representative schemes for the problem, reconstructs video at decoder by correcting noise on side information using channel coding technique such as turbo code. Since the encoder generates only parity bits without performing any type of processes extracting correlation information between frames, it has an extremely simple structure. However, turbo decoding errors occur in noisy side information. When there are high-motion or occlusion between frames, more turbo decoding errors appear in reconstructed frame and look like Salt & Pepper noise. This severely deteriorates subjective video quality even though such noise rarely occurs. In this paper, we propose a computationally extremely light encoder based on symbol-level Wyner-Ziv coding technique and a new corresponding decoder which, based on a decision whether a pixel has error or not, applies median filter selectively in order to minimize loss of texture detail from filtering. The proposed method claims extremely low encoder complexity and shows improvements both in subjective quality and PSNR. Our experiments have verified average PSNR gain of up to 0.8dB.
Keywords
DSC; DVC; Wyner-Ziv coding; Turbo decoding error; Selective median filter; Refinement;
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