Enhanced spatial error concealment with directional entropy based interpolation switching

This paper describes a spatial error concealment method that uses edge related information for concealing missing macroblocks in a way that not only preserves existing edges but also avoids introducing new strong ones. The method relies on a novel switching algorithm which uses the directional entropy of neighboring edges for choosing between two interpolation methods, a directional along detected edges or a bilinear using the nearest neighboring pixels. Results show that the performance of the proposed method is subjectively and objectively (PSNR wise) better compared to both ´single interpolation´ and to edge strength based switching methods