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Iterative Multiview Side Information for Enhanced Reconstruction in Distributed Video Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new paradigm for video compression based on the information theoretical results of Slepian and Wolf (SW) and Wyner and Ziv (WZ). DVC entails low complexity encoders as well as separate encoding of correlated video source ...

2009

Error-resilient Scalable Compression based on Distributed Video Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new paradigm for video compression based on the information theoretical results of Slepian-Wolf (SW) and Wyner-Ziv (WZ). In this work, a performance analysis of image and video coding schemes based on DVC are presented, ...

2009

Improved Side Information Generation for Distributed Video Coding by Exploiting Spatial and Temporal Correlations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new paradigm in video coding, which is receiving a lot of interests nowadays. Side Information (SI) generation is a key function in the DVC decoder, and plays a key-role in determining the performance of the codec. This ...

2009

Performance evaluation of two state of the art DVC codecs

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

The performance of existing DVC codecs is still lacking relative to that of H.264 and work is being carried out in order to close this gap. The authors of this paper have been and still are involved in the development of two DVC codecs respectively, the pe ...

2009

Selected topics on distributed video coding

Mourad Ouaret

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new paradigm for video compression based on the information theoretical results of Slepian and Wolf (SW), and Wyner and Ziv (WZ). While conventional coding has a rigid complexity allocation as most of the complex tasks a ...

EPFL2008

Improved Side Information Generation with Iterative Decoding and Frame Interpolation for Distributed Video Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new paradigm in video coding, which is receiving a lot of interests nowadays. Side Information (SI) generation is a key function in the DVC decoder, and plays a key-role in determining the performance of the codec. This ...

2008

Error Resiliency of Distributed Video Coding in Wireless Video Communication

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux, Michael Ansorge

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new paradigm in video coding, based on the Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv theorems. DVC offers a number of potential advantages: flexible partitioning of the complexity between the encoder and decoder, robustness to channel ...

SPIE2008

Enabling Privacy For Distributed Video Coding by Transform Domain Scrambling

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

In this paper, a novel scheme for video scrambling is introduced for Distributed Video Coding. The goal is to conceal video information in several applications such as video surveillance and anonymous video communications to preserve privacy. This is achie ...

2008

Hybrid Spatial and Temporal Error Concealment for Distributed Video Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is based on a new paradigm in coding, which has received many interests recently. Among other features, DVC is said to provide better error resiliency. This paper proposes a hybrid spatial and temporal error concealment schem ...

2008

The DISCOVER codec: Architecture, Techniques and Evaluation

Mourad Ouaret

Distributed Video Coding is becoming more and more popular among the research community, because of its interesting theoretical contributions and because there are still many open problems waiting to be solved. This paper introduces the codec architecture ...

2007

On Comparing Image and Video Compression Algorithms

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

In this work, a performance evaluation of AVC Intra and JPEG2000 in terms of rate-distortion performance is conducted. A set of High Definition sequences with different spatial resolutions is used for this purpose. Results obtained show quite competitive p ...

2007

Codec-Independent Scalable Distributed Video Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

In this paper, we introduce novel schemes for scalable Distributed Video Coding (DVC), dealing with temporal, spatial and quality scalabilities. More specifically, conventional coding is used to obtain a base layer. DVC is then applied to generate enhancem ...

2007

A comparative study of JPEG 2000, AVC/H.264, and HD Photo

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux, Francesca De Simone

In this paper, we report a study evaluating rate-distortion performance between JPEG 2000, AVC/H.264 High 4:4:4 Intra and HD Photo. A set of ten high definition color images with different spatial resolutions has been used. Both the PSNR and the perceptual ...

2007

Recent Advances in Multi-view Distributed Video Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

We consider dense networks of surveillance cameras capturing overlapped images of the same scene from different viewing directions, such a scenario being referred to as multi-view. Data compression is paramount in such a system due to the large amount of c ...

2007

Multiview Distributed Video Coding with Encoder Driven Fusion

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mourad Ouaret, Frédéric Dufaux

In this paper, a scheme based on multiview and Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is introduced. More specifically, a new fusion technique between temporal, homography and Disparity Compensation View Prediction (DCVP) side informations is introduced. For this ...

2007