A control scheme for a data rate scalable video codec

We present a control scheme for a rate scalable video codec. We describe a wavelet based video codec with motion compensation used to reduce temporal redundancy. The prediction error frames are encoded using an embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) approach which allows data rate scalability. Since motion compensation is used in the algorithm, the duality of the decoded video may decay due to the propagation of errors in the temporal domain. An adaptive motion compensation scheme is proposed to address this problem. We show that using our control scheme the quality of the decoded video can be maintained at any data rate.