Refined Spatial Error Concealment with Directional Entropy

A refined error concealment method for intra frame in H.264 is proposed in this work. Directional entropy of neighboring edges is used to classify the content of the lost block. Some techniques aimed to shorten the computation time without degrading quality of reconstructed video are presented to enforce multi-directional interpolation. As for block with high texture, either bilinear or multi-directional interpolation alone is not so well to recover, we integrate the two methods to get the final result. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and better performance of proposed method as compared to other interpolation based methods.