Robust Video Coding

Organizers : Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST Paris) and Sheila Hemami (Cornell University)

There is an increasing interest in practical methods for video transmission which question well-established paradigms such as independent optimization of source and channel codes, the use of merely a single transmission channel, the complex-encoder/low cost-decoder model, and, in general, the separation between network layers.

Examples of such robust coding systems that will be discussed in this special session include:

• joint source-channel coding
• multiple description coding
• scalable subband video compression
• video coding with side information
• cross-layer resource allocation in wireless video

These new techniques have shown that it is possible to achieve interesting trade-offs between error resilience, network-adaptivity and coding efficiency.

Overview lecture:
  Author: Sheila Hemami (Cornell Univ.)
  Title: Robust Video Coding - Spanning the Continuum from Source to Channel

Regular lectures:

• Authors: Brian Heng (EECS Dept at MIT, Cambridge, MA), John Apostolopoulos (HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA), Jae Lim (EECS Dept at MIT, Cambridge, MA)
  Title: Multiple Description Video Coding through Adaptive Spatial/Temporal Segmentation
• Authors: Teodora Petrisor (ENST Paris), Christophe Tillier (ENST Paris), Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST Paris) and Jean-Christophe Pesquet (Univ. Marne-la-Vallée, France)
  Title: Comparison of Redundant Wavelet Schemes for Multiple Description Coding of Video Sequences
• Authors: Anna Scaglione (Cornell Univ.) and Mihaela van der Schaar (UC Davis)
  Title: Cross-layer resource allocation for delay-constrained wireless video transmission
• Authors: J.C. Chiang, M. Kieffer, and P. Duhamel
  Title: Motion-compensated oversampled filterbanks for robust video coding
• Author: Markus Flierl (EPFL)
  Title: Video Coding with Motion-Compensated Wavelet and Side Information