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21 April 1995 Video coding algorithm based on recovery techniques using mean field annealing
Taner Ozcelik, James C. Brailean, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
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Proceedings Volume 2501, Visual Communications and Image Processing '95; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206733
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing '95, 1995, Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract
Most of the existing video coding algorithms produce highly visible artifacts in the reconstructed images as the bit-rate is lowered. These artifacts are due to the information loss caused by the quantization process. Since these algorithms treat decoding as simply the inverse process of encoding, these artifacts are inevitable. In this paper, we propose an encoder/decoder paradigm in which both the encoder and decoder solve an estimation problem based on the available bitstream and prior knowledge about the source image and video. The proposed technique makes use of a priori information about the original image through a nonstationary Gauss-Markov model. Utilizing this mode, a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate is obtained iteratively using mean field annealing. The fidelity to the data is preserved by projecting the image onto a constraint set defined by the quantizer at each iteration. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated on an H.261-type video codec. It is shown to be effective in improving the reconstructed image quality considerably while reducing the bit-rate.
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Taner Ozcelik, James C. Brailean, and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos "Video coding algorithm based on recovery techniques using mean field annealing", Proc. SPIE 2501, Visual Communications and Image Processing '95, (21 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206733
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KEYWORDS
Quantization

Video

Annealing

Computer programming

Video coding

Image quality

Image quality standards

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