Abstract
The motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF)-based scalable video coding (SVC) provides a full scalability including spatial, temporal and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scalability with fine granularity, each of which may result in different visual effect. This paper addresses a novel approach of two-dimensional unequal error protection (2-D UEP) for the scalable video with a combined temporal and quality (SNR) scalability over packet-erasure channel. The bit-stream is divided into scalable subbitstreams based on the structure of MCTF. Each subbitstream is further divided into several quality layers. Unequal quantities of bits are allocated to protect different layers to obtain acceptable quality video with smooth degradation under different transmission error conditions. Experimental results are presented to show the advantage of the proposed 2-D UEP scheme over the traditional one-dimensional unequal error protection (1-D UEP) scheme. Comparing the proposed method with the 1-D UEP scheme on SNR layers, our method gives up to 0.81-dB improvement for some video sequences.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 37-45 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Channel coding
- FEC
- MCTF
- Scalable video coding
- UEP
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Media Technology
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering