GOP-based channel rate allocation using genetic algorithm for scalable video streaming over error-prone networks

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1323-1330

  Fang, Tao ^a   Chau, Lap Pui ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Equal error protection (EEP); Forward error correction; Genetic algorithm (GA); Group of pictures; Reed Solomon coding; Scalable video coding; Unequal protection (UEP); Wireless packet erasure channel

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR CORRECTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; SIGNAL ENCODING;

CHANNEL RATE ALLOCATION; EQUAL ERROR PROTECTION; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; GROUP-OF-PICTURES (GOP); REED-SOLOMON CODING; UNEQUAL PROTECTION; VIDEO STREAMING; WIRELESS PACKET-ERASURE CHANNEL;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33646877015     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.864159     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Majumder et al., "Multicast and unicast real-time video streaming over wireless LANs," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 524-534, Jun. 2002.
2. J. Kim, R. M. Mersereau, and Y. Altunbasak, "A multiple-substream unequal error-protection and error-concealment algorithm for SPIHT-coded video bitstreams," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 1547-1553, Dec. 2004.
3. M. Srinivasan and R. Chellappa, "Adaptive source-channel subband video coding for wireless channels," IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 1830-1839, Dec. 1998.
4. G. Cheung and A. Zakhor, "Bit allocation for joint source/channel coding of scalable video," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 340-356, Mar. 2000.
5. L. P. Kondi, F. Ishtiaq, and A. K. Katsaggelos, "Joint source-channel coding for motion-compensated DCT-based SNR scalable video," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1043-1052, Sep. 2002.
6. U. Horn, K. W. Stuhlmüller, M. Link, and B. Girod, "Robust internet video transmission based on scalable coding and unequal error protection," Signal Process. Image Commun., vol. 15, pp. 77-94, Sep. 1999.
7. A. Mohr, E. A. Riskin, and R. E. Ladner, "Unequal loss protection: graceful degradation of image quality over packet erasure channels through forward error correction," IEEE J. Select. Areas Comm., vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 819-828, Jun. 2000.
8. M. van der Schaar and H. Radha, "Unequal packet loss resilience for fine-granular-scalability video," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 381-393, Dec. 2001.
9. V. M. Stanković, R. Hamzaoui, and Z. Xiong, "Real-time error protection of embedded codes for packet erasure and fading channels," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 1064-1072, Aug. 2004.
10. C. Huang and S. Liang, "Unequal error protection for MPEG-2 video transmission over wireless channels," Signal Process. Image Commun., vol. 19, pp. 67-79, Jan. 2004.
11. X. Yang et al., "Unequal loss protection for robust transmission of motion compensated video over the internet," Signal Process. Image Commun., vol. 18, pp. 157-167, Mar. 2003.
12. F. Marx and J. Farah, "A novel approach to achieve unequal error protection for video transmission over 3G wireless networks," Signal Process. Image Commun., vol. 19, pp. 313-323, Apr. 2004.
13. T. Fang and L.-P. Chau, "A novel unequal error protection approach for error resilient video transmission," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits Syst., May 2005, pp. 4022-4025.
14. Z. He, J. Cai, and C. W. Chen, "Joint source channel rate-distortion analysis for adaptive mode selection and rate control in wireless video coding," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 511-523, Jun. 2002.
15. E. O. Elliott, "A model of the switched telephone network for data communications," Bell. Syst. Techn. J., pp. 89-109, Jan. 1965.
16. K. Stuhlmüller, N. Färber, M. Link, and B. Girod, "Analysis of video transmission over lossy channels," IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1012-1032, Jun. 2000.
17. D. E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, Dec. 1988.
18. B. G. Haskell, A. Puri, and A. N. Netravali, Digital Video: An Introduction to MPEG-2. London, U.K.: Chapman & Hall, 1997. Digital Multimedia Standards Series.
19. T. Wiegand, G. J. Sullivan, G. Bjøntegaard, and A. Luthra, "Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 560-576, Jul. 2003.
20. T. Stockhammer, M. M. Hannuksela, and T. Wiegand, "H.264/AVC in wireless environments," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 657-673, Jul. 2003.
21. L. Cheng, W. Zhang, and L. Chen, "Rate-distortion optimized unequal loss protection for FGS compressed video," IEEE Trans. Broadcasting, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 126-131, Jun. 2004.
22. A. Albanese, J. Blömer, J. Edmonds, M. Luby, and M. Sudan, "Priority encoding transmission," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1737-1744, Nov. 1996.
23. M. Puri and M. Ramchandran, "Multiple description coding using forward error correction codes," in Proc. 3rd Asilomar Conf. Signals Syst., vol. 1, Oct. 1999, pp. 342-346.