Spatial Error Concealment Algorithm Based on Adaptive Edge Threshold and Directional Weight

Abstract

In order to improve the H.264/AVC compressed video stream error resilience in wireless channel transmission, this paper presents a spatial error concealment algorithm based on adaptive edge threshold and directional weight. Firstly, this algorithm makes use of Sobel gradient operator of image edge detection to detect the edge of adjacent macro blocks; secondly, according to specific information of adjacent macro-block of damaged macro-block, it can set gradient adaptive threshold; thirdly, it makes the direction weighted interpolation to damaged macro-block with the Sobel gradient operator of image edge detection. Experiments show that the image reconstruction quality is greatly improved by using this algorithm, which has higher application value for different video sequence as compared to the traditional spatial error concealment algorithms. This algorithm not only improves the quality of image restoration, but also has higher application value.