Mobile video communications using a Wyner-Ziv transcoder

Eduardo Peixoto; Ricardo L. de Queiroz; Debargha Mukherjee

doi:10.1117/12.765545

28 January 2008 Mobile video communications using a Wyner-Ziv transcoder

Eduardo Peixoto, Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Debargha Mukherjee

Proceedings Volume 6822, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2008; 68220R (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.765545
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In mobile-to-mobile video communications, both the transmitting and receiving ends may not have the necessary computing power to perform complex video compression and decompression tasks. Traditional video codecs typically have highly complex encoders and less complex decoders. However, Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding allows for a low complexity encoder at the price of a more complex decoder. We propose a video communication system where the transmitter uses a WZ (reversed complexity) coder, while the receiver uses a traditional decoder, hence minimizing complexity at both ends. For that to work we propose to insert a transcoder in the network to convert the video stream. We present an efficient transcoder from a simple WZ approach to H.263. Our approach saves a large amount of the computation by reusing the motion estimation performed at the WZ decoder stage, among other things. Results are presented to demonstrate the transcoder performance.

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Eduardo Peixoto, Ricardo L. de Queiroz, and Debargha Mukherjee "Mobile video communications using a Wyner-Ziv transcoder", Proc. SPIE 6822, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2008, 68220R (28 January 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.765545

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