The perceived lateral position of a transmitted beam, upon propagating through a slab made of homogeneous, isotropic, dielectric material at an oblique angle, can be controlled through varying the velocity of the slab. In particular, by judiciously selecting the slab velocity, the transmitted beam can emerge from the slab with no lateral shift in position. Thereby, a degree of concealment can b...

Video transmission over noisy channel leads to errors on video, which degrades the visual quality noticeably and makes error concealment an indispensable job. One approach that is especially suited for applications with real-time constraints, limited bandwidth, or multicast distribution, is to conceal the information loss at the receiver. In this paper we focused on hybrid concealment mechanism...

In this paper we consider the problem of packet loss concealment for Voice over IP (VoIP). The speech signal is compressed at the transmitter using a sinusoidal coding scheme working at 8 kbit/s. At the receiver, packet loss concealment is carried out working directly on the quantized sinusoidal parameters, based on time-scaling of the packets surrounding the missing ones. Subjective listening ...

The H.264 standard allows each macroblock to have up to sixteen motion vectors, four reference frames, and a macroblock mode. Exploiting this feature, we present an efficient temporal error concealment algorithm for H.264-coded video. The proposed method turns out to show good performance compared with conventional approaches. key words: temporal error concealment, boundary matching algorithm (...

The transmission errors in H.264 may propagate in the temporal direction. Errors in intra-coded picture (I-frame) will propagate into the associated P-B frame if they are in the same Group Of Picture (GOP). Therefore it is important to detect errors in the I-frame rather than in the P-B frame. This paper proposes and demonstrates an effective technique of Error-Resilient Coding based on bit-err...

Design of peer-review support systems is shaped by the policies that define and govern the process of peer review. An important component of these are policies that deal with anonymity: the rules that govern the concealment and transparency of information related to identities of the various stakeholders (authors, reviewers, editors, and others) involved in the peer-review process. Anonymity po...

We present a novel error-concealment method for MPEG-2 video decoders. Imperfect transmission of block-based compressed images may result in loss of blocks, making image degradation inevitable. In the hybrid error-concealment method, both spatial and temporal error concealment repair the damaged regions through adaptive interpolation in the respective domains. In order for the hybrid method to ...

The neural basis of self and identity has received extensive research. However, most of these existing studies have focused on situations where the internal representation of the self is consistent with the external one. The present study used fMRI methodology to examine the neural correlates of two different types of identity conflict: identity faking and concealment. Participants were present...

A mandatory requirement for future wireless multimedia communication is the availability of error resilient media codecs. This work discusses error detection and concealment techniques for a layered scalable video decoder, based on the SNR scalability option of the H.263 standard. A concealment method is proposed which uses error frequency and error location statistics for efficient hiding of t...

Video streaming over a hostile environment such as the Internet, where the available bandwidth varies in time, requires the source to adjust its transmission rate dynamically. Moreover, inevitable packet losses cannot be totally avoided and, hence, the video-streaming schemes should be complemented with appropriate error concealment techniques. In this paper, we highlight the vitality of the bi...