Progressive source-channel coding of video for unknown noisy channels

Numerous techniques have been developed over the last several decades to efficiently transmit video across noisy channel. In this paper, we propose an unequal error protection scheme for the progressive video compression through cascading a bit-sensitive-based error control channel coding with an embedded multiresolutional 3D-SPIHT scalable video coder. It provides an efficient manner for the joint source-channel coding system to trade off the rate-distortion (RD) performance and the error-resilient performance for the unknown uncontrollable noisy channels at a given available transmission rate. This coding system is easy to implement and has acceptable complexity. The performance of the joint source-channel coding approach under various channel conditions is evaluated.