End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized MD Mode Selection for Multiple Description Video Coding
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Apostolopoulos, John G.; Heng, Brian A.; Lim, Jae S.
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Multiple description (MD) video coding can be used to reduce the detrimental effects caused by transmission over lossy packet networks. A number of approaches have been proposed for MD coding, where each provides a different tradeoff between compression efficiency and error resilience. How effectively each method achieves this tradeoff depends on the network conditions as well as on the characteristics of the video itself. This paper proposes an adaptive MD coding approach which adapts to these conditions through the use of adaptive MD mode selection. The encoder in this system is able to accurately estimate the expected end-to-end distortion, accounting for both compression and packet loss-induced distortions, as well as for the bursty nature of channel losses and the effective use of multiple transmission paths. With this model of the expected end-to-end distortion, the encoder selects between MD coding modes in a rate-distortion (R-D) optimized manner to most effectively tradeoff compression efficiency for error resilience. We show how this approach adapts to both the local characteristics of the video and network conditions and demonstrates the resulting gains in performance using an H.264-based adaptive MD video coder.
Date issued
2006-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceJournal
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Citation
Heng, Brian A., John G. Apostolopoulos, and Jae S. Lim. “End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized MD Mode Selection for Multiple Description Video Coding.” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2006 (2006): 1-13. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. © 2006 Brian A. Heng et al.
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1687-6172
1687-6180