Wireless image transmission using turbo codes and optimal unequal error protection

Author

Thomos, Nikolaos ; Boulgouris, Nikolaos V. ; Strintzis, M.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2003

Abstract

A novel image transmission scheme is proposed for the communication of SPIHT image streams over wireless channels. The proposed scheme employs turbo codes and erasure-correction codes in order to deal effectively with burst errors. An algorithm for the optimal unequal error protection of the compressed bitstream is also proposed. The resulting scheme is tested for the transmission of images over wireless channels. Experimental evaluation clearly demonstrates the superiority of the proposed scheme in comparison to well-known robust coding schemes.

Keywords

error correction codes; forward error correction; image coding; radiocommunication; telecommunication channels; turbo codes; SPIHT image stream; burst error; erasure-correction code; optimal unequal error protection; turbo code; wireless channel; wireless image transmission; Concatenated codes; Cyclic redundancy check; Decoding; Error correction codes; Head; Image communication; Protection; Reed-Solomon codes; Streaming media; Turbo codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on

ISSN

1522-4880

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7750-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2003.1246901

Filename

1246901