Unequal Error Protection for Region of Interest with Embedded Zerotree Wavelet

This paper describes a new method of unequal error protection (UEP) for region of interest (ROI) with embedded zerotree wavelet algorithm (EZW). ROI technique is important in applications with different parts of importance. In ROI coding, a chosen ROI is encoded with higher quality than the background (BG). Unequal error protection of image is provided by different coding techniques. In our proposed method, image is divided into two parts (ROI, BG) that consist of more important bytes (MIB) and less important bytes (LIB). The experimental results verify effectiveness of the design. The results of our method demonstrate the comparison of the unequal error protection (UEP) of image transmission with defined ROI and the equal error protection (EEP) over multiple noisy channels.

Authors:

• T. Hirner
• J. Polec

Keywords:

• embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW)
• equal error protection (EEP)
• region of interest (ROI)
• RS code
• unequal error protection (UEP)

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