Unequal error protected transmission with dynamic classification in H.264/AVC

As an efficient error resilient tool in H.264, FMO (Flexible Macroblock Ordering) still has 2 disadvantages: (1) unacceptable bitrate overhead, and (2) unsuitable for widely used UEP (unequal error protected) transmission. In this paper, to overcome these 2 disadvantages, a dynamic FMO classification (DFMOC) is proposed. For disadvantage(l), in DFMOC since lots of MBs in the same slice are placed together, thus the bitrate overhead is smaller. For disadvantage^), DFMOC generates 2 slices and each of them takes unequal priority in transmission by the large and small motion area extraction. After employing LDPC coding for UEP transmission strategy, experiment shows DFMOC has a better error robustness while still keeps less bitrate overhead compared with traditional FMO mode: the PSNR has 1 to 2 db outperforming and the bitrate overhead keeps no more than 5% which is about a half of traditional FMO overhead.