Error-Resilient Transmission of H.264 SVC Streams over DVB-T/H and WIMAX Channels with Multiple Description Coding Techniques

Error-Resilient Transmission of H.264 SVC Streams over DVB-T/H and WIMAX Channels with Multiple Description Coding Techniques ■

Peter Schelkens, Peter Schelkens, Peter Schelkens, Augustin Gavrilescu, Augustin Gavrilescu, Augustin Gavrilescu, Adrian Munteanu, Adrian Munteanu, Adrian Munteanu, Y. D'hondt, Y. D'hondt, Y. D'hondt, K. Vermeirsch, K. Vermeirsch, K. Vermeirsch, Rik Van De Walle, Rik Van De Walle, Rik Van De Walle, O. Guye, O. Guye, O. Guye, Stewart Worrall, Stewart Worrall, Stewart Worrall, Antonio Navarro, Antonio Navarro, Antonio Navarro

Abstract ■

The European STREP Project SUIT involves the development of a multiple description scalable video codec for the transmission of video content over DVB-T/H and WiMAX channels. In this paper, we elaborate on the architectural design choices for such a multiple description transmission system, which utilizes H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC). We follow a phased approach focusing on the following un-balanced multiple description coding approaches: fully redundant unbalanced multiple description coding, multiple description coding based on redundant slices and multiple description coding by means of embedded multiple description quantisation.