Unequal error protection using wynerziv coding for error resilience Compressed video is very sensitive to channel errors. A few bit losses can derail the entire decoding process. Thus, protecting compressed video is imperative to enable visual communications. Since different elements in a compressed video stream vary in their impact on the quality of the decoded video, unequal error protection can be used to provide efficient protection. This paper describes an unequal error protection method for protecting data elements in a video stream, via a WynerZiv encoder that consists of a coarse quantizer and a Turbo coder based lossless Slepianwolf encoder. Data elements that significantly impact the visual quality of decoded video, such as modes and motion vectors as used by H.264, are provided more parity bits than coarsely quantized transform coefficients. This results in an improvement in the quality of the decoded video when the transmitted sequence is corrupted by transmission errors, than obtained by the use of equal error protection.

Error statistical analysis of H.263 syntactical elements The purpose of our work is to report a solution for the problem of the Joint SourceChannel Coding (JSCC) of the H.263 bit stream to be transmitted through error prone channels. Our investigations led us to classify the H.263 syntactical elements into several classes of different significance. By identifying the most sensitive elements we developed a data partitioning (DP) technique which exhibits improved error resilience. A good reconstructed video quality is obtained for a constant 64 kbits transmission rate using Rate Compatible Punctured Convolutional (RCPC) codes of different rates for forward error protection. By exploiting the different syntactical element sensitivities we presented an Unequal Error Protection (UEP) scheme that surpasses the optimal Equal Error Protection (EEP). The forward error correction adopted has resulted in PSNR improvements over 20 dB for bit error rates higher than of 4x10   3 .