Multiple Description Video Coding Based on Human Visual System Characteristics

In this paper, a novel multiple description video coding scheme is proposed based on the characteristics of the human visual system (HVS). Due to the underlying spatial-temporal masking properties, human eyes cannot sense any changes below the just noticeable difference (JND) threshold. Therefore, at an encoder, only the visual information that cannot be predicted well within the JND tolerance needs to be encoded as redundant information, which leads to more effective redundancy allocation according to the HVS characteristics. Compared with the relevant existing schemes, the experimental results exhibit better performance of the proposed scheme at same bit rates, in terms of perceptual evaluation and subjective viewing.