Multiple Description H.264 Coding with Redundant Pictures

Multiple description coding (MDC) o®ers a competitive so- lution for video transmission over lossy packet networks, with a graceful degradation of the reproduced quality as the loss rate increases. This paper illustrates how redundant pictures, an error resilience tool included in H.264/AVC, can be employed in conjunction with multiple state video coding scheme, previously proposed in the literature. The proposed MDC solution is shown to provide superior perfor- mance to state-of-the-art techniques, in terms of improved average luma peak-signal-to-noise-ratio (PSNR), fewer tem- poral °uctuations in the picture quality, and improved ro- bustness to bad estimation of the loss probability in the network.