Layer-aware unequal error protection for robust scalable H.264 video transmission over packet lossy networks

Yifei Sun, Xingjun Zhang, Feilong Tang, Scott Fowler, Huali Cui, Xiaoshe Dong

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Abstract

The Scalable Video Coding (SVC) amendment of the H.264/AVC standard is an up-to-date video compression standard. The various scalable layers have different contribution to the quality of the reconstructed video sequence due to the use of hierarchical prediction and the drift propagation. This paper proposes a novel trapezoidal-unequal error protection (UEP) scheme which significantly reduces the redundancy but rarely decreases the performance by taking into account the characteristics of the video coding and the adoptive forward error correction (FEC) sufficiently. In order to optimally distribute FEC codes, the paper then proposes a layer-aware distortion model to accurately estimate the decrement of video quality caused by the loss of quality enhancement layers, drift propagation and error concealment in the scalable H.264/AVC video. Experimental results show that the proposed trapezoidal UEP scheme has better robustness and in the meanwhile reduces the coding redundancy greatly in different channel circumstance compared with the traditional UEP scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2011 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBiS 2011
Pages628-633
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBiS 2011 - Tirana, Albania
Duration: 7 Sep 20119 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2011 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBiS 2011

Conference

Conference2011 International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBiS 2011
Country/TerritoryAlbania
CityTirana
Period7/09/119/09/11

Keywords

  • Channel coding
  • Forward error correction
  • Scalable video coding
  • Unequal error protection

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