Fast and robust spatio-temporal image alignment for inter-sequence error concealment

Tröger T, Kaup A (2010)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2010

Pages Range: 445-448

Article Number: 5654241

Event location: Hong Kong CN

ISBN: 9781424479948

DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5654241

Abstract

Terrestrial broadcasting of digital TV is often error-prone due to suboptimal channels. Inter-sequence error concealment is a novel technique to reconstruct lost image blocks of video signals by inserting error-free blocks of reference signals. Considering multi-broadcast receivers, reference signals are typically scaled, cropped and delayed. Spatio-temporal image alignment therefore is the crucial point of inter-sequence error concealment. A well-known intensity-based approach utilizing a numerical optimization technique shows supreme reconstruction quality outperforming state-of-the-art concealment methods by up to 15 dB PSNRY. In this paper, we present a novel feature-based approach which significantly reduces complexity. By using scale-invariant features for image alignment, the computation time can be reduced by a factor of up to 32.4. As reconstruction quality is almost kept constant, robustness of our algorithm is high. The maximum loss is 0.8 dB in terms of PSNRY. © 2010 IEEE.

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APA:

Tröger, T., & Kaup, A. (2010). Fast and robust spatio-temporal image alignment for inter-sequence error concealment. In Proceedings of the 2010 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010 (pp. 445-448). Hong Kong, CN.

MLA:

Tröger, Tobias, and André Kaup. "Fast and robust spatio-temporal image alignment for inter-sequence error concealment." Proceedings of the 2010 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010, Hong Kong 2010. 445-448.

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