A robust error protection technique for JPEG2000 codestream and its evaluation in CDMA environment

In this paper, a robust error protection scheme for JPEG2000 codestream is proposed. The error protection is achieved by combining the advantage of the codestream layer structure, a data hiding technique and an FEC code. At encoding stage, multiple quality layers of the codestream are protected by an FEC code with various strengths. The parity data is then hidden in the least significant layer. Prior to image decoding, error recovery is done by means of extracting the hidden data and performing the FEC decoding to the corresponding layers. The proposed method offers several benefits: it preserves the same codestream structure as the one in the JPEG2000 standard part 1, does not require additional bandwidth and can be integrated with the existing JPEG2000 error resilience tools. Hence, it accommodates one of the requirements for the upcoming wireless JPEG2000 (JPWL or JPEG2000 part 11). Simulations in a CDMA environment confirmed the proposal´s effectiveness.