Title
Region-based rate control and bit allocation for wireless video transmission
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a joint source-channel region-based rate control algorithm for real-time video transmissions over wireless systems. During the video transmission, the channel throughput available to the video encoder in the wireless systems is inherently variable, due to the retransmission of the error packets using the automatic repeat request (ARQ) error control. The variable data rate of the wireless system is characterized by the packet-level Gilbert two-state Markov Model, the parameters of which are extracted from the statistical properties of the channel information obtained from the wireless channel simulator. The proposed algorithm adopts a fast but effective block-based segmentation method to extract the regions of interest. Unlike traditional bit allocation methods used in the region/content-based rate control, the algorithm exploits the most effective criteria "coding qualities" as quantitative factors to directly control bit allocation among different regions so as to achieve better visual quality in the regions of interest. The computational complexity of the algorithm is low making it suitable for real-time applications. Compared with the MPEG-4 rate control algorithm, our algorithm can effectively enhance the perceptual quality for the regions of interest and significantly reduce the number of frame skipping; thereby, improve the smoothness of the video.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/TMM.2005.861296
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bit rate,Error correction,Automatic repeat request,Data mining,Automatic control,Control systems,Real time systems,Throughput,Computational complexity,MPEG 4 Standard
Wireless network,Computer science,Retransmission,Communication channel,Real-time computing,Error detection and correction,Automatic repeat request,Encoder,Transmission time,Channel capacity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
32
1.22
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu Sun1625.22
ishfaq ahmad234315.49
Dongdong Li324640.19
Ya-Qin Zhang43684320.41