An Improved Error Concealment Based on Redundant Motion Vector Information

Abstract:

During video transmission over error prone network, compressed video bit-stream is sensitive to channel errors that may degrade the decoded pictures severely. In order to solve this problem, error concealment technique is a useful post-processing tool for recovering the lost information. In these methods, how to estimate the lost motion vector correctly is important for the quality of decoded picture. In order to recover the lost motion vector, an Decoder Motion Vector Estimation (DMVE) criterion was proposed and have well effect for recover the lost blocks. In this paper, we propose an improved error concealment method based on DMVE, which exploits the accurate motion vector by using redundant motion vector information. The experimental results with an H.264 codec show that our method improves both subjective and objective decoder reconstructed video quality, especially for sequences of drastic motion.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 532-533)
• Pages: 1219-1224
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.532-533.1219
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Hong Tao Deng
• Keywords: DMVE, Error Concealment, Redundant Motion Vector

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