An error concealment scheme for MPEG-2 coded video sequences

Abstract

The problem of errors occurring in MPEG-2 coded video sequences, caused by signal loss during transmission, is examined in this paper and an attempt is made to reconstruct the lost parts at each frame. The proposed error concealment scheme exploits reconstructed temporal information from previously decoded frames in order to conceal bitstream errors in all types of frames: I, P, or B, as long as temporal information is available. Since no such information is available for the first frame (I-frame) of an MPEG-2 coded sequence, another concealment technique is added to the proposed scheme, which uses spatial information from neighbouring macroblocks (MBs). The simulation results compared with other methods prove to be better judging from both PSNR values and the perceived visual quality of the reconstructed sequence. Its quality ameliorates with time.