eprintid: 792 rev_number: 19 eprint_status: archive userid: 35 dir: disk0/00/00/07/92 datestamp: 2011-08-10 13:58:34 lastmod: 2013-03-05 15:47:46 status_changed: 2011-08-10 13:58:34 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Wang, Haohong creators_name: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. creators_name: Katsaggelos, Aggelos K. creators_id: creators_id: sotirios.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it creators_id: title: Joint source-channel coding for wireless object-based video communications utilizing data hiding ispublished: pub subjects: QA75 subjects: TK divisions: CSA full_text_status: none keywords: Lagrangian relaxation; Rayleigh-fading wireless channel; data hiding; dynamic programming; hybrid source-channel coding scheme; multimedia communications; optimization problem; wireless object-based video communications; Rayleigh channels; combined source-channel coding; data encapsulation; dynamic programming; video coding; video communication; wireless channels abstract: In recent years, joint source-channel coding for multimedia communications has gained increased popularity. However, very limited work has been conducted to address the problem of joint source-channel coding for object-based video. In this paper, we propose a data hiding scheme that improves the error resilience of object-based video by adaptively embedding the shape and motion information into the texture data. Within a rate-distortion theoretical framework, the source coding, channel coding, data embedding, and decoder error concealment are jointly optimized based on knowledge of the transmission channel conditions. Our goal is to achieve the best video quality as expressed by the minimum total expected distortion. The optimization problem is solved using Lagrangian relaxation and dynamic programming. The performance of the proposed scheme is tested using simulations of a Rayleigh-fading wireless channel, and the algorithm is implemented based on the MPEG-4 verification model. Experimental results indicate that the proposed hybrid source-channel coding scheme significantly outperforms methods without data hiding or unequal error protection date: 2006-08 date_type: published publication: IEEE Transactions on image processing volume: 15 number: 8 publisher: IEEE pagerange: 2158 -2169 id_number: 10.1109/TIP.2006.875194 refereed: TRUE issn: 1057-7149 official_url: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1658082&isnumber=34713 citation: Wang, Haohong and Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Katsaggelos, Aggelos K. Joint source-channel coding for wireless object-based video communications utilizing data hiding. IEEE Transactions on image processing, 15 (8). 2158 -2169. ISSN 1057-7149 (2006)