A NOVEL TEMPORAL-FREQUENCY DOMAIN ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD FOR MOTION JPEG

Abstract Motion-JPEG is a common video format for compression of motion images with high quality using JPEG standard for each frame of the video. During transmission through a noisy channel some blocks of data are lost or corrupted, and the quality of decompression frames decreased. In this paper, for reconstruction of these blocks, several temporal-domain, spatial-domain, and frequency-domain error concealment methods are investigated. Then a novel method is proposed for recovery of channel errors with a mixture of temporal-domain and frequency-domain error concealment methods. To reconstruct the missed blocks in the proposed novel method, when two successive frames are similar, a proposed two phase block matching algorithm is performed in temporal-domain. When two successive frames are different, our proposed method reconstructs the missed block by the estimation of DC and AC coefficient, in frequency-domain. The proposed method and the other similar methods are simulated for different noise and quality factors. The results of quality measurements are indicated that in all tested video sequences, the proposed method shows higher quality in reconstruction of missed blocks.