Side information enhancement using an adaptive hash-based genetic algorithm in a Wyner-Ziv context

Side information construction in Wyner-Ziv video coding is a sensible task which strongly influences the final rate-distortion performance of the scheme. This side information is usually generated through an interpolation of the previous and next images. Some of the zones of a scene however, such as the occlusions, cannot be estimated with other frames. In this paper we propose to avoid this problem by sending some hash information for these unpredictable zones of the image. The resulting algorithm is described and tested here. The obtained results show the advantages of using localized hash information for the high error zones in distributed video coding. ©2010 IEEE.