Transmission of Low-Bit-Rate MPEG-4 Video Signals Over Wireless Channels

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to study the performance of the MPEG-4 video coding standard in the presence of highly erroneous media, such as a wireless channel, MPEG-4 treats video sequences as a collection of objects rather than a collection of frames. A Matlab encoder that confirms to this approach is built for compressing raw video signals at various compression rates, A two-state Markov channel was used to simulate a wireless channel that introduces errors in the video bitstream and a decoder that utilizes error concealment techniques to hide these errors from the user was used to reconstruct the video sequence, The error resilient tools that the MPEG-4 standard provides to enhance the robustness in the presence of errors were simulated and proven to be advantageous compared to methods used in previous standards (MPEG-2, H,263, etc,) At the decoder, the use of error concealment techniques significantly enhanced the quality of the reconstructed video in high bit error rate environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA401721

Entities

People

  • Evangelos A. Adam

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Change Detection
  • Coding
  • Communication Channels
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Error Correction Codes
  • Gray Scale
  • Image Processing
  • Image Segmentation
  • Information Systems
  • Standards
  • Two Dimensional
  • Video
  • Video Signals
  • Video Teleconferencing
  • Wireless Networks

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.