A novel multiple description approach to predictive video coding

  • Authors:

  • Zhiqin Liang;Jiantao Zhou;Liwei Guo;Mengyao Ma;Oscar Au

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • Venue:
  • PCM'07 Proceedings of the multimedia 8th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in multimedia information processing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Multiple description coding (MDC) is a source coding technique that exploits path diversity to combat packet losses over errorprone channels. In this paper, we proposed a novel drift-free multistate MDC method. At the encoder side, the original video is compressed into multiple independently decodable H.263 streams, each with its own coding structure and prediction process, such that if one stream is lost, the other stream can still be used to produce video with acceptable quality. At the decoder side, each description is considered as a noisy observation of the original video. A Least square-error (LSE) based merge algorithm is proposed to combine the descriptions. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has similar coding efficiency to [1], yet with improved error resilience.