Robust decoding of a 3D-ESCOT bitstream transmitted over a noisy channel

In this paper, we propose a joint source-channel (JSC) decoding scheme for 3D ESCOT-based video coders, such as Vidwav. The embedded bitstream generated by such coders is very sensitive to transmission errors unavoidable on wireless channels. The proposed JSC decoder employs the residual redundancy left in the bitstream by the source coder combined with bit reliability information provided by the channel or channel decoder to correct transmission errors. When considering an AWGN channel, the performance gains are in average 4 dB in terms of PSNR of the reconstructed frames, and 0.7 dB in terms of channel SNR. When considering individual frames, the obtained gain is up to 15 dB in PSNR.

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