Optimization of spatial error concealment for H.264 featuring low complexity

Shih Chia Huang*, Sy Yen Kuo

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Transmission of highly compressed video bitstreams can result in packet erasures when channel status is unfavorable. Spatial error concealment (SEC) techniques are very useful in the recovery of impaired video sequences, especially in the presence of scene changes, irregular motion, and appearance or disappearance of objects. As errors occur in the first frame, the corrupted MBs must be recovered by utilizing SEC schemes in order to prevent the propagation of errors to the succeeding inter-coded frames. We propose two SEC methods; one conceals the variances of the different kinds of damaged Macroblocks (MBs) targeted at any condition, and the other is speed-up which utilizes a H.264 coding tool, directional spatial intra prediction, in order to conceal the entire spectrum of damaged MBs targeted at intra-coded block(s). The experimental results show that when compared to other state of the art methods, our proposed SEC techniques significantly improve video quality up to 3.62-4.22 dB while reducing computational complexity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Multimedia Modeling - 14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2008, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages391-401
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)3540774076, 9783540774075
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM2008 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 09 01 200811 01 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4903 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM2008
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period09/01/0811/01/08

Keywords

  • H.264
  • Spatial error concealment

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