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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Efficient Flexible Macroblock Ordering Technique

Kostas PSANNIS, Yutaka ISHIBASHI

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The H.264/AVC standard provides several new error-resilient features to enable the reliable transmission of compressed video signals over lossy packet networks. Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) is one of the most interesting resilient features within the H.264/AVC standard. Unlike former standards, in which slices were constructed out of consecutive raster scan macroblocks, FMO suggests new slices composed of spatially distributed Macroblocks (MBs), and organized in a mixed-up fashion. H.264/AVC specifies seven types of FMO. The standard defines also an explicit FMO type (Type 6), which allows explicitly assignment of each MB within the frame to any available slice groups. Therefore new FMO types can be used and integrated into H264/AVC without violating the standard. In this paper we propose a new Explicit Chessboard-Wipe (ECW) Flexible Macroblocks Ordering (FMO) technique, which outperforms all other FMO types. The new ECW ordering results in effective error scattering which maximizes the number of correctly received macroblocks located around corrupted macroblocks, leading to better error concealment. Performance evaluations demonstrate that the proposed Explicit FMO approach outperforms all the FMO types. Both subjective and objective visual quality comparative study has been also carried out in order to validate the proposed approach.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E91-B No.8 pp.2692-2701
Publication Date
2008/08/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.8.2692
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Multimedia Systems for Communications

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