Low bit-rate video compression based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) recovery techniques

Taner Ozcelik; Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

doi:10.1117/12.185883

16 September 1994 Low bit-rate video compression based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) recovery techniques

Taner Ozcelik, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Proceedings Volume 2308, Visual Communications and Image Processing '94; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185883
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing '94, 1994, Chicago, IL, United States

Abstract

Most of the existing video coding algorithms produce highly visible artifacts in the reconstructed images as the bit-rate is lowered. These artifacts are due to the information loss caused by the quantization process. Since these algorithms treat decoding as simply the inverse process of encoding, these artifacts are inevitable. In this paper, we propose an encoder/decoder paradigm in which both the encoder and decoder solve an estimation problem based on the available bitstream and prior knowledge about the source image and video. The proposed technique makes use of a priori information about the original image through a non- stationary Gauss-Markov model. Utilizing this model, a maximum a posteriori estimate is obtained iteratively using mean field annealing. The fidelity to the data is preserved by projecting the image onto a constraint set defined by the quantizer at each iteration. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated on an H.261-type video codec. It is shown to be effective in improving the reconstructed image quality considerably while reducing the bit-rate.

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Taner Ozcelik and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos "Low bit-rate video compression based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) recovery techniques", Proc. SPIE 2308, Visual Communications and Image Processing '94, (16 September 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185883

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