Distributed Video Coding based on advanced side information generation framework

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new compression paradigm in video coding, which is receiving lots of interests nowadays. Side information creation is a key function in the DVC decoder, and plays a key-role in determining the performance of the codec. This paper proposes a novel framework to create side information at the block level with two modes: Wyner-Ziv mode and Intra/WZ mode, corresponding to Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation and motion compensated quality enhancement technique, respectively. While in the second mode, a low quality Intra block sent by the encoder is used to generate side information by doing motion estimation with the help of the reference frames. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can achieve up to 2.1dB improvement in rate-distortion performance when compared to state-of-the-art DVC codec, especially for high motion video sequences and long group of pictures sizes.