Embedded Side Information Refinement for Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding Towards UMTS 3G Application

This paper presents a new approach to pixel domain Wyner-Ziv (PDWZ) video coding by using weighted motion compensated refinement (WMCR) embedded into turbo decoder to efficiently optimize side information. The proposed system is designed by combining a relatively simple interpolation model for initial side information plus embedded refinement process to achieve better performance of system as a whole. In order to explore practical application of PDWZ in wireless environment, we adopt the 3GPP standardized turbo codec as Slepian-Wolf codec in PDWZ system. Experimental results showed that the proposed system have noticeable improvement in RD performance and reduced complexity of whole system.