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Robust Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting System with Error-Resilient Schemes

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In this paper, error-resilient schemes are proposed to support robust video transmission for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting (DTTB). In particular, a temporal error concealment incorporated with a low-complexity block-matching is developed, achieving an effective reception of predictive pictures in harsh terrestrial environment. Special algorithms are also designed for isolated I-pictures. Moreover, combined with an intra/inter case prediction, an adaptive error concealment scheme is further contrived to fit for different error conditions. Extensive simulations have been conducted under various DTTB channel conditions, even with a very high packet error rate, to verify the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China

    Chuxiang Li & Jianhua Lu

  2. Department of CS, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

    Jun Gu

  3. Department of EEE, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

    Ming L. Liou

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Li, C., Lu, J., Gu, J. et al. Robust Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting System with Error-Resilient Schemes. The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing-Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology 33, 277–285 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022175813537

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