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Method for speeding up spatial error concealment using prediction mode of the neighboring blocks on H.264 video communication

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Error concealment can recover the video frame which has been corrupted by packet loss over error-prone channel, however, speeding up of error concealment is very important for various real-time applications such as video conferencing, video chatting, etc. A fast spatial error concealment method using prediction mode of the neighboring blocks is presented in this paper. First, the weighting values of edge prediction direction for sixteen 4 × 4 neighboring blocks are calculated considering prediction mode of the opposite neighboring blocks. Second, the significant edges within a corrupted macroblock(MB) are estimated using the sixteen weighting values of edge prediction direction. Finally, the approximations for each corrupted pixel are calculated along each significant edge, then a weighted average of multiple approximations is computed considering prediction mode of the neighboring blocks. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm speeds up multi-directional interpolation up to 1.17 times while sacrificing image quality for about 0.01 dB on avaerage compared with the previous method.

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Abbreviations

AVC:

Advanced Video Coding

BI:

Bilinear interpolation

EC:

Error concealment

MB:

macroblock

MDI:

Multi-directional interpolation

PSNR:

Peak signal-to-noise ratio

QP:

quantization parameter

SEC:

Spatial error concealment

TEC:

temporal error concealment

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    Pyong-Su Hwang, Ju-Hyok Ri & Yong-Hun Yun

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PSH proposed the algorithms and drafted the manuscript. JHR performed the whole experiments and analysed the data. YHY reviewed and revised the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Hwang, PS., Ri, JH. & Yun, YH. Method for speeding up spatial error concealment using prediction mode of the neighboring blocks on H.264 video communication. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 13733–13743 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-13950-5

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