METHOD FOR PROTECTING VIDEO TRANSMISSION BASED ON H.264

• US 20080144724A1
• Filed: 10/05/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Song, Bin, Zhou, Ningzhao, LUO, Zhong, Chang, Yilin
• Application Number:
  US11/868,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20080144724A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.26
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/353 Adaptation to the channel
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/373 with erasure correction and erasure determination, e.g. for packet loss recovery or setting of erasures for the decoding of Reed-Solomon codes
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/3761 using code combining, i.e. using combining of codeword portions which may have been transmitted separately, e.g. Digital Fountain codes, Raptor codes or Luby Transform [LT] codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/102 characterised by the element, parameter or selection affected or controlled by the adaptive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/166 concerning the amount of transmission errors, e.g. bit error rate [BER]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/89 involving methods or arrangements for detection of transmission errors at the decoder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN

Abstract

A method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 is disclosed, In the invention, a receiving end performs statistical analysis on the communication quality and the result is fed back to a transmitting end, the transmitting end adjusts the protection strategy self adaptively; the receiving end performs statistical analysis on the accumulated lost slice rate and position information about lost data based on the discontinuous situation of NALU sequence numbers; the receiving end feeds the statistical information back to the transmitting end with extended SEI message; the transmitting end configures two sets of protection strategy systems to separately protect critical data and non critical data, and selects the protection strategy of appropriate level according to the accumulated lost slice rate that is fed back; the receiving end transmits position information about lost data back to the transmitting end; the transmitting end resends the lost data.

Claims

1. A method for protecting video transmission based on H.264, comprising:

protecting, by a transmitting end, video stream data according to a protection strategy, and transmitting the video stream data to a receiving end;

receiving, by the receiving end, the video stream data, obtaining information about communication quality according to the video stream data, and transmitting the information about communication quality to the transmitting end;

receiving, by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality, and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly.

2. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining information about communication quality comprises:

abstracting, by the receiving end, sequence numbers of network abstraction layer units from the video stream data received, performing a statistical analysis and obtaining an accumulated lost slice rate, which is used as statistical information for indicating the information about the communication quality.

3. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining information about communication quality comprises:

abstracting, by the receiving end, sequence numbers of network abstraction layer units from the video stream data received, taking a sequence number of a lost network abstraction layer unit as the information about communication quality; and

in the process of receiving, by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality, and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly, the transmitting end calculates and obtains an accumulated lost slice rate according to the sequence number of the lost network abstraction layer unit, and adjusts the protection strategy according to the accumulated lost slice rate.

4. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 1 wherein the transmitting end configures protection strategy systems of different levels, the adjusting in the process of receiving, by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality, and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly comprises:

selecting and implementing the protection strategy of a corresponding level according to the information about communication quality.

5. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting end configures a threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate and in the process of receiving, by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly, the protection strategy is adjusted according to a comparison relationship between the accumulated lost slice rate and the threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate.

6. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting the information about communication quality to the transmitting end comprises:

defining, by the receiving end, extended supplemental enhancement Information for carrying the information about communication quality filling the information about communication quality in the extended supplemental enhancement information and transmitting the extended supplemental enhancement information back to the transmitting end.

7. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 4, wherein the protection strategy systems comprise:

a first protection strategy sequence, adapted to protect critical data of the video stream data; and

a second protection strategy sequence adapted to protect less critical data of the video stream data.

8. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 4, wherein the protection strategy adopts Tornado Erasure Codes, and the protection strategies of different levels correspond to the Tornado Codes with different parameters.

9. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 4, wherein the transmitting end configures a threshold sequence of an accumulated lost slice rate, the information about communication quality is the accumulated lost slice rate or a sequence number of a lost network abstraction layer unit;

the adjusting in the process of receiving, by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality, and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly comprises;

selecting and implementing the protection strategy of the corresponding level according to the comparison relationship between the accumulated lost slice rate and the threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate.

10. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 3, wherein the process of receiving, by the receiving end, the video stream data, obtaining information about communication quality according to the video stream data and transmitting the information about communication quality to the transmitting end further comprises:

obtaining by the receiving end, position information about lost video stream data through statistical analysis according to received sequence numbers of network abstraction layer units of the video stream data, and transmitting the position information back to the transmitting end; and

the process of receiving by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly further comprises;

resending, by the transmitting end, the lost video stream data to the receiving end according to the position information about the lost video stream data.

11. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 2, wherein the transmitting end configures a threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate, and in the process of receiving by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality, and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly, the protection strategy is adjusted according to a comparison relationship between the accumulated lost slice rate and the threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate.

12. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 3, wherein the transmitting end configures a threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate, and in the process of receiving, by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality, and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly, the protection strategy is adjusted according to a comparison relationship between the accumulated lost slice rate and the threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate.

13. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 4, wherein the transmitting end configures a threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate, and in the process of receiving, by the transmitting end, the information about communication quality, and adjusting the protection strategy accordingly, the protection strategy is adjusted according to a comparison relationship between the accumulated lost slice rate and the threshold sequence of the accumulated lost slice rate.

14. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 2, wherein the transmitting the information about communication quality to the transmitting end comprises:

defining, by the receiving end, extended supplemental enhancement Information for carrying the information about communication quality, filling the information about communication quality in the extended supplemental enhancement information and transmitting the extended supplemental enhancement information back to the transmitting end.

15. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 3, wherein the transmitting the information about communication quality to the transmitting end comprises:

defining, by the receiving end, extended supplemental enhancement Information for carrying the information about communication quality, filling the information about communication quality in the extended supplemental enhancement information and transmitting the extended supplemental enhancement information back to the transmitting end.

16. The method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 according to claim 7, wherein the protection strategy adopts Tornado Erasure Codes, and the protection strategies of different levels correspond to the Tornado Codes with different parameters.