Introducing skip mode in distributed video coding

doi:10.1016/j.image.2008.12.004

2009-03-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.image.2008.12.004

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Although it was proven in the 1970s already by Wyner and Ziv and Slepian and Wolf that, under certain conditions, the same rate-distortion boundaries exist for distributed video coding (DVC) systems as for traditional predicting systems, until now no practical DVC system has been developed that even comes close to the performance of state-of-the-art video codecs such as H.264/AVC in terms of rate-distortion. Some important factors for this are the lower accuracy of the motion estimation performed at the decoder, the inaccurate modeling of the correlation between the side information and the original frame, and the absence in most state-of-the-art DVC systems of anything conceptually similar to the notion of skipped macroblocks in predictive coding systems. This paper proposes an extension of a state-of-the-art transform domain residual DVC system with an implementation of skip mode. The skip mode has an impact at two different places: in the turbo decoder, more specifically the soft input, soft output (SISO) convolutional decoder, and in the puncturing of the parity bits. Results show average bitrate gains up to 39% (depending on the sequence) achieved by combining both approaches. Furthermore, a hybrid video codec is presented where the motion estimation task is shifted back to the encoder. This results in a drastic increase in encoder complexity, but also in a drastic performance gain in terms of rate-distortion, with average bitrate savings up to 60% relative to the distributed video codec. in the hybrid video codec, smaller but still important average bitrate gains are achieved by implementing skip mode: up to 24%. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Distributed video coding

Wyner-Ziv coding

Skip mode

Coding efficiency