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Motion-energy-based unequal error protection for H.264/AVC video bitstreams

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An unequal error protection (UEP) technique based on motion information of video bitstreams compressed by H.264/AVC standard is proposed. Motion activities of macroblocks in a frame are analyzed, and those having high effects on the video performance are extracted. Suitable forward error-correcting codes with different rates are constructed according to the importance of macroblocks and frames. Simulation results show that the proposed technique significantly improves the video quality, while maintaining a similar overall code rate in comparison with other UEP techniques.

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  1. \(\mathrm{MV}_{32}=7.07, \mathrm{MV}_{265}=6.08\).

  2. If \(no\_hi\_imp> no\_lo\_imp\), the frame has high importance and vice versa.

  3. For all simulations, the code rate of EEP is set to 0.385.

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Pham, H.D., Vafi, S. Motion-energy-based unequal error protection for H.264/AVC video bitstreams. SIViP 9, 1759–1766 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-014-0641-8

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