Abstract
In wireless video transmission, multiple description coding (MDC) is an effective
way to enhance the error resilience over packet loss channels. Multiple description
coding divides the information source into several descriptions, each of which is
transmitted through an independent channel and have the ability to restore the whole
image. Therefore, even if some descriptions are lost in the transmission, an acceptable
quality can be achieved through other descriptions. While all the descriptions are
received, a better quality can be yielded.
Now multiple description video coding schemes are mostly based on multiple
prediction loops and behave well in the ideal multiple description channel. However, In
the wireless transmission, the channel packet loss will lead to difference between the
reference frame in the encoder and the decoder, which will cause a drift problem. The
drift propagates with time, and may cause a serious damage of the whole video
sequence. Using distributed video coding to replace the traditional predictive coding,
this paper proposed a novel feedback free multiple description distributed video coding
to beat the drift problem, in which a cycle shift algorithm and extracting the regions of
interest in bitplanes are used to produce balanced descriptions and remove the feedback
channel in DVC scheme. Meanwhile a simple video motion estimation method is
proposed to adjust the redundancy between the descriptions. Experimental results show
that the proposed MDDVC proves to be a promising multiple description coding
scheme, removing the feedback channel, ensuring the robustness transmission and
real-time transmission.
Keywords: multiple description coding drift problem distributed video coding
robustness transmission real-time transmission