Rate-distortion optimal joint source/channel coding for robust and efficient low bit rate packet video communications

Author

Gallant, Michael ; Kossentini, Faouzi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

355

Abstract

We present a rate-distortion optimal joint source/channel coding framework for efficient and robust low bit rate video communications in packet networks. The proposed algorithm combines layered coding with transport prioritization in a novel operational rate-distortion optimization framework that trades off source coding performance for channel coding protection. The system is demonstrated to achieve significant improvement in reconstructed video quality for a range of packet loss rates

Keywords

combined source-channel coding; data compression; image reconstruction; motion estimation; optimisation; packet radio networks; rate distortion theory; video coding; visual communication; channel coding protection; joint source/channel coding; layered coding; low bit rate packet video communications; motion estimation; packet loss rates; packet networks; rate-distortion optimal coding; rate-distortion optimization; reconstructed video quality; source coding performance; transport prioritization; Bit rate; Channel coding; Decoding; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Propagation losses; Rate-distortion; Robustness; Source coding; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1522-4880

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6297-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2000.900968

Filename

900968