Deep chroma prediction of Wyner–Ziv frames in distributed video coding of wireless capsule endoscopy video

Compression of captured video frames is crucial for saving the power in wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE). A low complexity encoder is desired to limit the power consumption required for compressing the WCE video. Distributed video coding (DVC) technique is best suitable for designing a low complexity encoder. In this technique, frames captured in RGB colour space are converted into YCbCr colour space. Both Y and CbCr representing luma and chroma components of the Wyner–Ziv (WZ) frames are processed and encoded in existing DVC techniques proposed for WCE video compression. In the WCE video, consecutive frames exhibit more similarity in texture and colour properties. The proposed work uses these properties to present a method for processing and encoding only the luma component of a WZ frame. The chroma components of the WZ frame are predicted by an encoder–decoder based deep chroma prediction model at the decoder by matching luma and texture information of the keyframe and WZ frame. The proposed method reduces the computations required for encoding and transmitting of WZ chroma component. The results show that the proposed DVC with a deep chroma prediction model performs better when compared to motion JPEG and existing DVC systems for WCE at the reduced encoder complexity.     

Performance evaluation of wavelet-based distributed video coding schemes

In this paper we propose and compare different distributed video coding (DVC) schemes based on the use of the wavelet transform, which naturally allows for spatial and other forms of scalability. In particular, we propose a hybrid encoder which utilizes channel codes, and evaluate its performance in the absence of a feedback channel. The proposed scheme uses statistical models for the estimation of the required bitrate at the encoder. We also propose a scheme that is based on a modulo reduction procedure and does not use channel codes at the receiver/transmitter. These schemes are compared with more conventional coders that do not or only partially exploit the distributed coding paradigm. Experimental results show that the considered schemes have good performance when compared with similar asymmetric video compression schemes, and that DVC can be an interesting option in appropriate scenarios.     

Advanced side information creation techniques and framework for Wyner–Ziv video coding

Recently, several distributed video coding (DVC) solutions based on the distributed source coding (DSC) paradigm have appeared in the literature. Wyner–Ziv (WZ) video coding, a particular case of DVC where side information is made available at the decoder, enable to achieve a flexible distribution of the computational complexity between the encoder and decoder, promising to fulfill novel requirements from applications such as video surveillance, sensor networks and mobile camera phones. The quality of the side information at the decoder has a critical role in determining the WZ video coding rate-distortion (RD) performance, notably to raise it to a level as close as possible to the RD performance of standard predictive video coding schemes. Towards this target, efficient motion search algorithms for powerful frame interpolation are much needed at the decoder. In this paper, the RD performance of a Wyner–Ziv video codec is improved by using novel, advanced motion compensated frame interpolation techniques to generate the side information. The development of these type of side information estimators is a difficult problem in WZ video coding, especially because the decoder only has available some reference, decoded frames. Based on the regularization of the motion field, novel side information creation techniques are proposed in this paper along with a new frame interpolation framework able to generate higher quality side information at the decoder. To illustrate the RD performance improvements, this novel side information creation framework has been integrated in a transform domain turbo coding based Wyner–Ziv video codec. Experimental results show that the novel side information creation solution leads to better RD performance than available state-of-the-art side information estimators, with improvements up to 2 dB; moreover, it allows outperforming H.264/AVC Intra by up to 3 dB with a lower encoding complexity.     

Joint source/channel coding for image transmission with JPEG2000 over memoryless channels.

The high compression efficiency and various features provided by JPEG2000 make it attractive for image transmission purposes. A novel joint source/channel coding scheme tailored for JPEG2000 is proposed in this paper to minimize the end-to-end image distortion within a given total transmission rate through memoryless channels. It provides unequal error protection by combining the forward error correction capability from channel codes and the error detection/localization functionality from JPEG2000 in an effective way. The proposed scheme generates quality scalable and error-resilient codestreams. It gives competitive performance with other existing schemes for JPEG2000 in the matched channel condition case and provides more graceful quality degradation for mismatched cases. Furthermore, both fixed-length source packets and fixed-length channel packets can be efficiently formed with the same algorithm.     

分析视频图像的压缩传输技术

介绍视频图像信号的压缩传输技术,简单论述几种压缩编码方式,讨论基于MPEG－2编码的视频图像传输计划,阐述JPEG2000编码系统整体流程,并研究JPEG2000中对视频图像进行压缩的相关传输技术。     

Image coding using lapped biorthogonal transform

The wireless sensor network utilizes image compression algorithms like JPEG, JPEG2000, and SPIHT for image transmission with high coding efficiency. During compression, discrete cosine transform (DCT)–based JPEG has blocking artifacts at low bit-rates. But this effect is reduced by discrete wavelet transform (DWT)–based JPEG2000 and SPIHT algorithm but it possess high computational complexity. This paper proposes an efficient lapped biorthogonal transform (LBT)–based low-complexity zerotree codec (LZC), an entropy coder for image coding algorithm to achieve high compression. The LBT-LZC algorithm yields high compression, better visual quality with low computational complexity. The performance of the proposed method is compared with other popular coding schemes based on LBT, DCT and wavelet transforms. The simulation results reveal that the proposed algorithm reduces the blocking artifacts and achieves high compression. Besides, it is analyzed for noise resilience.     

Wavelet-based scalable L-infinity-oriented compression.

Among the different classes of coding techniques proposed in literature, predictive schemes have proven their outstanding performance in near-lossless compression. However, these schemes are incapable of providing embedded L(infinity)-oriented compression, or, at most, provide a very limited number of potential L(infinity) bit-stream truncation points. We propose a new multidimensional wavelet-based L(infinity)-constrained scalable coding framework that generates a fully embedded L(infinity)-oriented bit stream and that retains the coding performance and all the scalability options of state-of-the-art L2-oriented wavelet codecs. Moreover, our codec instantiation of the proposed framework clearly outperforms JPEG2000 in L(infinity) coding sense.     

一种低编码复杂度可分级的视频编码系统

在可分级视频编码（SVC,scalable video coding）的框架下,利用分布式视频编码（DVC,distributed video coding）技术,设计了一种低编码复杂度的SVC方案。该系统具有空间可分级的特性,各分层中仅用到了传统的帧内编码技术和DVC技术,最大限度的减小了SVC系统的编码复杂度。在该...     

基于H.26L的精细度可伸缩视频编码

提出了一种基于H．26L精细度可伸缩(fine granularity scalability)视频编码方案，称为EFGS-H．26L。在该方案中，以MPEG-4的FGS为基础构造了一种新的可伸缩结构(EFGS，enhanced fine granularity scalability)，在EFGS结构中，基本层采用H．26L编码，增强层采用类似于JPEG2000的基于上下文的位平面编码。由于H．26L优良的编码性能，使得基本层的编码效率大大提高，为了提高增强层的编码效率，首先把残余图像按子带的顺序重新排列，这样就可以利用子带系数的相关性来实现冗余信息消除。JPEG2000标准中的EBCOT算法已经被证明是非常高效的位平面编码方法，所以对重排后的DCT系数采用一种类似于JPEG2000的基于上下文的位平面编码方法。实验结果证明，在高比特率时，本文提出的精细度可伸缩编码方案编码效率比MPEG-4中的FGS提高3．0dB左右。     

Distributed video coding based on vector quantization: Application to capsule endoscopy

We present in this paper a new distributed video coding (DVC) architecture for wireless capsule endoscopy. It is based on the state of the art DVC systems, but without using key frames. Instead, it uses an adapted vector quantization (VQ) with a searching complexity that is shifted to the decoder. VQ allows creating a good side information (SI) by exploiting the similarities in human anatomy. Thus, SI is created from a codebook (CB) rather than by motion compensated prediction. This approach decreases largely the complexity of the encoder, which codes only Wyner-Ziv frames, and allows a progressive decoding. The encoder of the proposed DVC generates only a simple hash that is used by the decoder to select the corresponding VQ codeword. The obtained experimental results show that rate-distortion results are better than those of JPEG, and show the possibility of using scalable coding to control the used rate and energy.     

运动图像压缩标准Motion-JPEG2000

首先通过与JPEG比较，介绍JPGE2000核心编码系统中变换编码、量化、熵编码以及频率加权等有关内容，然后通过与现有视频压缩标准进行对比，介绍Motion-JPE2000的主要压缩特点与优势。     

Side information estimation and new symmetric schemes for multi-view distributed video coding

This paper deals with distributed video coding (DVC) for multi-view sequences. DVC of multi-view sequences is a recent field of research, with huge potential impact in applications such as videosurveillance, real-time event streaming from multiple cameras, and, in general, immersive communications. It raises however several problems, and in this paper we tackle two of them. Based on the principles of Wyner–Ziv (WZ) coding, in multi-view DVC many estimations can be generated in order to create the side information (SI) at the decoder. It has been shown that the quality of the SI strongly influences the global coding performances. Therefore, this paper proposes to study the contribution of multiple SI estimations (in the temporal and view directions) to the global performances. Moreover, we propose new symmetric schemes for longer group of pictures (GOP) in multi-view DVC and show that we can further exploit the long-term correlations using a new kind of estimation, called diagonal. For such schemes, several decoding strategies may be envisaged. We perform a theoretical study of the temporal and inter-view dependencies, and confirm by experiments the conclusion about the best decoding strategy.     

Independent key frame coding using correlated pixels in distributed video coding

A novel intra-coding technique is proposed that eliminates the requirement of a secondary coding scheme for coding the key frames in distributed video coding (DVC). The proposed technique uses the Slepian-Wolf theorem and Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding with spatially predicted information to transmit the key-frames to the DVC decoder. Simulation results show that the proposed WZ-intra coding technique (WZ-I) can achieve up to 5 dB PSNR gain compared to MPEG-2 intra coding (MPEG-I) at the same bit rate with negligible computational cost to the encoder     

Performance analysis,parameter selection and extensions to H.264/AVC FRExt for high resolution video coding

H.264/AVC FRExt (Fidelity Range Extensions) and Motion JPEG 2000 are the current respective inter-frame and intra-frame coding standards for high resolution (HR) (e.g., 4096 × 2160) visual signals. It is commonly believed that an inter-frame method could achieve higher coding efficiency compared with an intra-frame one, due to the exploitation of video temporal redundancy. However, Motion JPEG 2000 has been selected as the digital cinema compression standard, and some existing work has demonstrated that JPEG 2000 is more suitable at HR situations. In this paper, we compare the rate–distortion (R–D) performance of these two different schemes and give more insight from both theoretical and experimental point of view. We derive an entropy-based R–D model to analyze the test results and the impact of residual entropy and quantization for inter-frame coding. Several extensions are introduced into H.264/AVC FRExt for HR video content for better performance. Experimental results show that these extensions lead to significantly higher coding efficiency and make our extended version more suitable for HR video coding     

Mutual information-based analysis of JPEG2000 contexts.

Context-based arithmetic coding has been widely adopted in image and video compression and is a key component of the new JPEG2000 image compression standard. In this paper, the contexts used in JPEG2000 are analyzed using the mutual information, which is closely related to the compression performance. We first show that, when combining the contexts, the mutual information between the contexts and the encoded data will decrease unless the conditional probability distributions of the combined contexts are the same. Given I, the initial number of contexts, and F, the final desired number of contexts, there are S(I, F) possible context classification schemes where S(I, F) is called the Stirling number of the second kind. The optimal classification scheme is the one that gives the maximum mutual information. Instead of using an exhaustive search, the optimal classification scheme can be obtained through a modified generalized Lloyd algorithm with the relative entropy as the distortion metric. For binary arithmetic coding, the search complexity can be reduced by using dynamic programming. Our experimental results show that the JPEG2000 contexts capture the correlations among the wavelet coefficients very well. At the same time, the number of contexts used as part of the standard can be reduced without loss in the coding performance.     

基于LDPCA的分布式视频编码实现及应用

分布式视频编码技术（Distributed Video Coding）是一种新颖的联合信源信道编码技术,在视频传输的差错控制、压缩、纠错上表现突出。文中利用LDPCA实现分布式编码,在实现较高压缩比的视频压缩方案的同时,实现了视频数据的自我纠错,增强了视频的抗噪能力和鲁棒性,能有效去除各种数字污染和噪声,保证数据完整性和唯一性,扩展了分布式编码技术的应用。     

A Wyner-Ziv Video Coding method utilizing mixture correlation noise model

In Wyner-Ziv (WZ) Distributed Video Coding (DVC), correlation noise model is often used to describe the error distribution between WZ frame and the side information. The accuracy of the model can influence the performance of the video coder directly. A mixture correlation noise model in Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain for WZ video coding is established in this paper. Different correlation noise estimation method is used for direct current and alternating current coefficients. Parameter estimation method based on expectation maximization algorithm is used to estimate the Laplace distribution center of direct current frequency band and Mixture Laplace-Uniform Distribution Model (MLUDM) is established for alternating current coefficients. Experimental results suggest that the proposed mixture correlation noise model can describe the heavy tail and sudden change of the noise accurately at high rate and make significant improvement on the coding efficiency compared with the noise model presented by DIStributed COding for Video sERvices (DISCOVER).     

分布式视频编码边信息改进技术

高质量的边信息生成技术是分布式视频编码系统实现高压缩效率的关键所在.提出一种边信息的改进方法,对部分译码的Wyner-Ziv(WZ)帧中运动剧烈的区域进行空域修正,使用相邻关键帧对应块的空间预测值与实际值之间的差值来补偿当前部分译码WZ帧中空间预测的误差.仿真结果表明该方法提升了边信息的质量,进而提高了DVC系统的率失真性能.     

基于全相位IDCT滤波器的内插重采样分层编码技术

该文提出了一种基于全相位逆离散余弦变换(APIDCT)内插滤波器的重采样分层编码技术。全相位数字滤波器(APDF)是一种新型的线性相位滤波器。该文给出了APIDCT的设计方法,并通过比较几种APDF的性能,证明APIDCT在图像内插方面性能优异。在此内插方法基础上,结合重采样和自适应算术编码形成了分层图像编码技术,这种技术算法简单,适用于空间可分级编码。实验结果表明仅用其中3层,重建图像的峰值信噪比和压缩率就可达到略优于JPEG的效果,并且压缩率高时也不会出现块效应。     

“人在回路”制导链路仿真

建立＂人在回路＂制导链路模型,便于后续研究数据链的抗干扰性能及寻求破坏制导链路通信的方法。对单帧黑白图像,采用以CDF9/7小波滤波器和优化截断嵌入块编码（EBCOT）为核心的JPEG2000图像压缩标准,来模拟传输的连续视频图像帧,建立了基于直序扩频以及键控频移通信体制的双向信息传输通道。用MATLAB编程实现了仿真,并从干扰容限和误码率的角度对数据链的抗干扰性能进行了分析。通过分析建立了简单而抗干扰的信息传输链路。