Network-aware perceptual error concealment method for H.264 video with side information

In order to improve the video quality of transmission with data loss,a spatial and temporal error concealment method was proposed,which considered both the state information of the network and the perceptual weight of the video content.The proposed method dynamically changed the reliability weight of the neighboring macroblock,which was used to conceal the lost macroblocks according to the packet loss rate of the current channel state.The perceptual weight map was utilized as side information to do weighted pixel interpolation and side-match based motion compensation for spatial and temporal error concealment,respectively.And the perceptual weight of the neighboring macroblocks was adaptively modified according to the perceptual weight of the lost macroblocks.Compared with the method used in H.264 joint model,experiment results show that the proposed method performs well both in subjective video quality and objective video quality,and increases the average peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR) of the whole frame by about 0.4 dB when the video bitstreams are transmitted with packets loss.

Power Allocation for Sensing-Based Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio System with Primary Quantized Side Information

Spectrum access approach and power allocation scheme are important techniques in cognitive radio(CR) system,which not only affect communication performance of CR user(secondary user,SU) but also play decisive role for protection of primary user(PU).In this study,we propose a power allocation scheme for SU based on the status sensing of PU in a single-input single-output(SISO) CR network.Instead of the conventional binary primary transmit power strategy,namely the sensed PU has only present or absent status,we consider a more practical scenario when PU transmits with multiple levels of power and quantized side information known by SU in advance as a primary quantized codebook.The secondary power allocation scheme to maximize the average throughput under the rate loss constraint(RLC) of PU is parameterized by the sensing results for PU,the primary quantized codebook and the channel state information(CSI) of SU.Furthermore,Differential Evolution(DE) algorithm is used to solve this non-convex power allocation problem.Simulation results show the performance and effectiveness of our proposed scheme under more practical communication conditions.

Trifocal tensor based side information generation for multi-view distributed video code

Distributed video coding （DVC） is a new video coding approach based on Wyner-Ziv theorem. The novel uplink-friendly DVC, which offers low-complexity, low-power consuming, and low-cost video encoding, has aroused more and more research interests. In this paper a new method based on multiple view geometry is presented for spatial side information generation of uncalibrated video sensor network. Trifocal tensor encapsulates all the geometric relations among three views that are independent of scene structure; it can be computed from image correspondences alone without requiring knowledge of the motion or calibration. Simulation results show that trifocal tensor-based spatial side information improves the rate-distortion performance over motion compensation based interpolation side information by a maximum gap of around 2dB. Then fusion merges the different side information （temporal and spatial） in order to improve the quality of the final one. Simulation results show that the rate-distortion gains about 0.4 dB.

Side information refinement in distributed video coding

Side information （SI） is one of the key issues in distributed video coding （DVC） and affects the compression performance of DVC largely. This paper proposes an SI refinement algorithm, in which the Wyner-Ziv （WZ） frame is split into two parts based on checkerboard pattern, and the two parts are encoded independently but decoded sequentially. In the decoding process, the part 1 is first decoded with the initial SI and partially decoded part （PDP） 1 is used to improve the motion vectors （MVs） and SI of both parts. At the next stage, the part 2 is decoded with the improved SI and PDP 2 is used to further refine MVs of the part 2. Then, SI of both parts are further refined. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can improve the peak signal to noise ratio （PSNR） by up to 1.43 dB when compared with traditional DVC codec.

Side Information Generation Based on Hierarchical Motion Estimation in Distributed Video Coding

The side information quality has an immense effect on the compression efficiency of the distributed video coding (DVC) sys- tem. This article, based on the hierarchical motion estimation (HME), proposes a new side information generation algorithm which is integrated into DVC system. First, forward motion estimation (FME) and bidirectional motion estimation (BME) on the basis of variable block size HME algorithm are used to acquire relatively accurate motion vectors. Second, a motion vector filter (MVF) is i...

Improved side information generation algorithm for Wyner-Ziv video coding

Side information has a significant influence on the rate-distortion（RD） performance of distributed video coding（DVC）. In the conventional motion compensated frame interpolation scheme, all blocks adopt the same side-information generation method regardless of the motion intensity inequality at different regions. In this paper, an improved method is proposed. The image blocks are classified into two modes, fast motion and slow motion, by simply computing the discrete cosine transformation（DCT） coefficients at the encoder. On the decoder, it chooses the direct interpolation and refined motion compensated interpolation correspondingly to generate side information. Experimental results show that the proposed method, without increasing the encoder complexity, can increase the average peak signal-to-noise ratio（PSNR） by up to 1~ 2 dB compared with the existing algorithm. Meanwhile, the proposed algorithm significantly improves the subjective quality of the side information.

Clustering in the presence of side information: a non-linear approach

Purpose–Constrained clustering is an important recent development in clustering literature.The goal of an algorithm in constrained clustering research is to improve the quality of clustering by making use of background knowledge.The purpose of this paper is to suggest a new perspective for constrained clustering,by finding an effective transformation of data into target space on the reference of background knowledge given in the form of pairwise must-and cannot-link constraints.Design/methodology/approach–Most of existing methods in constrained clustering are limited to learn a distance metric or kernel matrix from the background knowledge while looking for transformation of data in target space.Unlike previous efforts,the author presents a non-linear method for constraint clustering,whose basic idea is to use different non-linear functions for each dimension in target space.Findings–The outcome of the paper is a novel non-linear method for constrained clustering which uses different non-linearfunctions for each dimension in target space.The proposed method for a particular case is formulated and explained for quadratic functions.To reduce the number of optimization parameters,the proposed method is modified to relax the quadratic function and approximate it by a factorized version that is easier to solve.Experimental results on synthetic and real-world data demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.Originality/value–This study proposes a new direction to the problem of constrained clustering by learning a non-linear transformation of data into target space without using kernel functions.This work will assist researchers to start development of new methods based on the proposed framework which will potentially provide them with new research topics.

Optimal power and subcarrier allocation with partial side information for downlink OFDMA system

In this paper,we investigate the power and subcarrier allocation issue in the case of partial side information for downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access （OFDMA） system.Relaxation method is utilized to characterize the necessary conditions of the optimal solution and the uniqueness of the optimal solution is proved.The game theoretical concept,surplus function is also introduced to analyze the optimal solution.Based on the theoretical analysis,we propose iterative surplus balancing algorithm （ISBA） that can jointly assign the power and subcarriers in multiple rounds,and then the optimality of ISBA is proved.Simulation results are presented to show the characteristics of the theoretical analysis and ISBA.

A New SLM Scheme Based on Constellation Rotation for PAPR Reduction

A new selected mapping(SLM)scheme based on constellation rotation is proposed to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio(PAPR)of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)signals.Its core idea is to generate abundant candidate signals by rotating different sub-signals of the original frequency signal with different angles.This new signal generation method can simplify the calculation process of candidate time signals into the linear addition of some intermediate signals,which are generated by the inverse fast Fourier transform(IFFT)operation of the original frequency signal.This feature can effectively reduce the computational complexity of candidate signal generation process.And compared to the traditional SLM scheme,the number of complex multiplication and complex addition of new scheme can separately be decreased by about 99.99% and 91.7% with some specific parameters.Moreover,with the help of the constellation detection mechanism at the receiver,there is no need to carry any side information at the transmitter.The simulation results show that,with the same channel transmission performance,the PAPR reduction performance of new scheme can approach or even exceed the upper bound of the traditional SLM scheme,which uses all the vectors in Hadamard matrix as the phase sequences.

职业教育供给侧改革与信息化推进逻辑:共建·共享·共赢

职业教育供需双方的信息沟通与衔接是供需结构平衡的基本前提,职业教育信息化建设能为供需的高效对接提供智能支持和效能帮扶。当前职业教育改革实践中存在信息结构失调下的供需发展失轨、供需脱节下的信息化建设失措与职业教育综合治理不力等问题,一定程度上阻滞了职业教育的发展步伐。为此,从供需双方的信息沟通与信息化建设着眼,深层探析信息化建设与职业教育供给侧结构性改革间的内生机理,并建构供给方与需求方之间信息的结构性对接机制,是推进职业教育供给侧结构性改革与信息化建设协同发展的应然选择和必然走向。

On Wyner-Ziv Problem for general sources with average distortion criterion

The Wyner-Ziv Problem for general sources with average distortion under fixed-length coding is investigated in this paper. To solve the problem,an enhanced covering lemma for a Markov chain is first established. Then based on the lemma,a general formula for the rate-distortion function of the problem is derived,where the distortion is only assumed uniformly bounded and may be nonadditive. Finally,it is further pointed out that such methods can be used to establish more general results on multiterminal source coding problems.

Error concealment in pixel based Wyner-Ziv video coding

In the Wyner-Ziv(WZ) video coding paradigm, a virtual correlation channel is assumed between the quantized source and the side information(SI) at the decoder, and channel coding is applied to achieve compression. In this paper, errors caused by the virtual correlation channel are addressed and an error concealment approach is proposed for pixel-based WZ video coding. In the approach, errors after decoding are classified into two types. Type 1 errors are caused by residual bit errors after channel decoding, while type 2 errors are due to low quality of SI in part of a frame which causes SI not lying within the quantization bin of a decoded quantized pixel value. Two separate strategies are respectively designed to detect and conceal the two types of errors. Simulations are carried out and results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Distributed Adaptive Compressed Video Sensing Using Smoothed Projected Landweber Reconstruction

A novel Compressed-Sensing-based(CS-based)Distributed Video Coding(DVC)system,called Distributed Adaptive Compressed Video Sensing(DISACOS),is proposed in this paper.In this system,the input frames are divided into key frames and non-key frames,which are encoded by block CS sampling.The key frames are encoded as CS measurements at substantially higher rates than the non-key frames and decoded by the Smoothed Projected Landweber(SPL)algorithm using multi-hypothesis predictions.For the non-key frames,a small number of CS measurements are first transmitted to detect blocks having low-quality Side Information(SI)generated by the conventional interpolation or extrapolation at the decoder;then,another group of CS measurements are sampled again upon the decoder’s request.To fully utilise the CS measurements,we adaptively allocate these measurements to each block in terms of different edge features.Finally,the residual frame is reconstructed using the SPL algorithm and the decoded non-key frame is simply determined as the sum of the residual frame and the SI.Experimental results have revealed that our CS-based DVC system yields better rate-distortion performance when compared with other schemes.

高校思政课教学供给侧结构性改革的意义与路径研究

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