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Robust distributed video coding for wireless multimedia sensor networks

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Coding complexity and error-resilience are the two key factors for video streaming in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). Towards this objective, this paper proposes a Robust Distributed Video Coding (RDVC) framework to optimize the quality of video transmission for WMSNs. A new error-resilient Key frame coding scheme is proposed based on the protection of Wyner-Ziv Coding (WZC), in which additional Wyner-Ziv bits play a significant role for better error resilience and better Rate/Distortion (RD) performance. In addition, following the theoretical background of Distributed Joint Source Channel Coding (DJSCC), a novel distributed source channel codec based on Group Puncture Rate Adaptive IRA code (GPRA-IRA) is proposed, upon which the error-resilient Wyner-Ziv codec is designed. These experimental results show that the proposed RDVC scheme outperforms the relevant coding in terms of RD performance, notably by up to 1-3 dB, while achieving a lower encoding complexity.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2015SCU04A11) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. 61471248.

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  1. College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China

    Hong Yang, Linbo Qing, Xiaohai He & Xiaojuan Liu

  2. Chengdu College of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China

    Hong Yang

  3. Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang, 414006, China

    Xianfeng Ou

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Yang, H., Qing, L., He, X. et al. Robust distributed video coding for wireless multimedia sensor networks. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 4453–4475 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-4245-x

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