Title
A concealment method for video communications in an error-prone environment
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a two-stage error-concealment method for block-based compressed video which was transmitted in an error-prone environment. In the first stage, we obtain initial estimates of the missing blocks. If the motion vectors associated with the missing blocks are available, motion compensation is used to provide good estimates. Otherwise, a novel algorithm which preserves image continuity is used to estimate the blocks. In the second stage, a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator, which employs an adaptive Markov random field (MRF) as the image a priori model is used to improve the video reconstruction quality. The adaptive model enables the estimation to incorporate information embedded not only in the immediate neighborhood pixels but also in a wider neighborhood into the reconstruction procedure without increasing the order of the MRF model. The proposed concealment method achieves very good computation-performance tradeoffs, as demonstrated via experimental results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/49.848261
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Motion estimation,Video compression,Image restoration,Image reconstruction,Discrete cosine transforms,Image coding,Markov random fields,Propagation losses,Motion compensation,Bit rate
Iterative reconstruction,Computer vision,Markov random field,Computer science,A priori and a posteriori,Motion compensation,Artificial intelligence,Maximum a posteriori estimation,Motion estimation,Image restoration,Data compression
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
6
0733-8716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
2.08
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Shirani130125.69
F. Kossentini22957492.73
R. Ward3312.08