Joint forward error correction and error concealment for compressed video

Abstract

In this paper we propose a joint source/channel decoding scheme. This work combines information from classical Forward Error Correction (FEC) with information about the syntax and semantics of the received video along with the resulting video's continuity to give improved performance over classical FEC. One feature of this work is the need to find a slice evaluation measure which balances the likelihood of a slice from the point of view of the channel decoder with the quality of the decompressed slice.