Resilient compression of video for transmission over the Internet

Author

Tan, Wai-tian ; Zakhor, Avideh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Nov. 1998

Firstpage

243

Abstract

We introduce a point to point video transmission scheme over the Internet combining a low-delay TCP-friendly transport protocol in conjunction with a novel compression method that is error resilient and bandwidth scalable. Compressed video is packetized into individually decodable packets that are of equal expected visual importance. As a result, relatively constant video quality can be achieved at the receiver under lossy conditions. The packets can be truncated to meet the time varying bandwidth imposed by the transport protocol. Actual Internet experiments together with simulations are used to evaluate the performance of the overall scheme.

Keywords

Internet; delays; digital simulation; packet switching; transport protocols; video coding; visual communication; FEC; Internet; bandwidth scalable method; constant video quality; decodable packets; equal expected visual importance; experiments; lossy conditions; low-delay TCP-friendly transport protocol; performance evaluation; receiver; resilient compression; simulations; time varying bandwidth; video compression; video transmission; Bandwidth; Decoding; Error correction; Forward error correction; Internet; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Transport protocols; Video compression; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems & Computers, 1998. Conference Record of the Thirty-Second Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5148-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.1998.750863

Filename

750863