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Spatio-Temporal Error Concealment of I-frame using GOP structure of MPEG-2  

Kang, Min-Jung (동국대학교 정보통신학과)
Ryu, Chul (동국대학교 정보통신학과)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.29, no.1C, 2004 , pp. 72-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes more robust error concealment techniques (ECTs) for MPEG-2 intra coded frame. MPEG-2 source coding algorithm is very sensitive to transmission errors due to the use of variable-length coding. The transmission errors are corrected by error correction scheme, however, they cannot be revised properly. Error concealment (EC) is used to conceal the errors which are not corrected by error correction and to provide minimum visual distortion at the decoder. If errors are generated in intra coded frame, that is the starting frame of GOP, they are propagated to other inter coded frames due to the nature of motion compensated prediction coding. Such propagation of error may cause severe visual distortion. The proposed algorithm in this paper utilizes the spatio-temporal information of neighboring inter coded frames to conceal the successive slices errors occurred in I-frame. The proposed method also overcomes the problems that previous ECTs reside. The proposed algorithm generates consistent performance even in network where the violent transmission errors frequently occur. Algorithm is performed in MPEG-2 video codec and we can confirm that the proposed algorithm provides less visible distortion and higher PSNR than other approaches through simulations.
Keywords
Error Concealment; Error Control; Error Detection; MPEG-2;
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