다계층 비디오 코딩에 적용 가능한 POCS 기반 에러 은닉 기법

Error Concealment Method Based on POCS for Multi-layered Video Coding

  • 윤병주 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
  • Yun, Byoung-Ju (School of Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
  • 발행 : 2009.07.25

초록

현재 무선망 등 다양한 네트워크에 적응적 서비스를 제공하기 위해 비디오 데이터에 확장성을 제공하는 다계층 비디오 부호화 기법을 사용하고 있다. 하지만 네트워크에서는 전송 에러로 인한 패킷 손실은 복호된 비디오에 오류를 발생시킨다. 특히 연집 에러에 의한 화질 저하는 현재 프레임뿐만 아니라 다음의 인트라 프레임이 나타날 때까지 파급되어 비디오 화질의 치명적 열화를 발생시킨다. 이러한 문제를 인코더에 의존하지 않고 디코더에서 독립적으로 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 다계층 비디오 부호화에 적합한 에러 은닉 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 다계층 비디오 부호화 기법의 계층 간 유사도와 에러 은닉 기법에 널리 사용되는 POCS 기법을 이용한다. POCS 기법의 적절한 초기치는 반복횟수를 줄일 수 있고, 성능에 영향을 미친다. 초기치 설정을 위해 본 논문에서는 계층 간 상관도와 이웃한 블록들 간의 상관도를 이용한다. 모의실험에서 제안된 에러 은닉의 우수성을 볼 수 있다.

Multi-layered video coding that provides scalability across the visual content has emerged for easily adaptive service over current heterogeneous network. However, the network is still error prone environment so that video service may suffer packet loss or erroneous decoding of the video. Especially distortion caused by the burst error may propagate to several pictures until intra refreshing, which will raise a terrific degradation of picture quality. To overcome the problem at terminal independently, we propose a new error concealment algorithm for the multi-layered video coding. The proposed method uses the similarity of between layers in the multi-layered video coding and POCS (Projections Onto Convex Sets) which is a powerful error concealment tool, but heavily dependent on initial values. To find adequate initial value which can reduce iteration times as well as achieve high performance, we took consideration into both features of layered approach coding and the correlation in neighbor blocks. The simulation results show that the proposed concealment method works well.

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