Reducing video-quality fluctuations for streaming scalable video using unequal error protection, retransmission, and interleaving

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 819-832

  Gan, Tong ^a   Gan, Lu ^b   Ma, Kai Kung ^c  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hybrid error control; Scalable video coding; Unequal error protection (UEP); Video streaming

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; PACKET NETWORKS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HYBRID ERROR CONTROL; SCALABLE VIDEO CODING; UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTION; VIDEO STREAMING;

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER NETWORK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SELECTION BIAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33645133195     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.863960     Document Type: Article

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