Research Article
An MDSQ-Based Seamless MDVC in P2P
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339951, author={Shuyuan Zhu and Siu-Kei Au Yeung and Bing Zeng}, title={An MDSQ-Based Seamless MDVC in P2P}, proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Multimedia Communications Symposium}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-MCS}, year={2009}, month={11}, keywords={Peer-to-peer Multiple-description coding Multiple-description scalar quantizer seamless}, doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339951} }- Shuyuan Zhu
Siu-Kei Au Yeung
Bing Zeng
Year: 2009
An MDSQ-Based Seamless MDVC in P2P
CHINACOM2009-MCS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339951
Abstract
Multiple-description coding (MDC) is a source coding technique which provides an effective way to mitigate the effects of packet errors/loses by making use of multiple channels. The most attractive application of MDC is perhaps the multiple-description video coding (MDVC) in the peer-to-peer (P2P) scenario so as to support simultaneous video streaming to a large population of clients. To this end, a number of MDVC schemes (both non-scalable and scalable) have been proposed in the past few years. However, almost all non-scalable schemes would suffer from the prediction mismatch between the references used at the encoder and decoder sides (for motion compensation); whereas most scalable schemes (involving a base-layer and some enhancement layers) would suffer from the inter-dependency within the enhancement-layer information. In this paper, we keep a common base-layer in all descriptions and propose some novel design of multiple-description scalar quantizer (MDSQ) that is applied on the enhancement-layer. As a result, this scheme can overcome the above drawbacks and more importantly achieve the seamless streaming among all peers.