DeepWiVe: deep-learning-aided wireless video transmission
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Author(s)
Tung, Tze-Yang
Gunduz, Deniz
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We present DeepWiVe , the first-ever end-to-end joint source-channel coding (JSCC) video transmission scheme that leverages the power of deep neural networks (DNNs) to directly map video signals to channel symbols, combining video compression, channel coding, and modulation steps into a single neural transform. Our DNN decoder predicts residuals without distortion feedback, which improves the video quality by accounting for occlusion/disocclusion and camera movements. We simultaneously train different bandwidth allocation networks for the frames to allow variable bandwidth transmission. Then, we train a bandwidth allocation network using reinforcement learning (RL) that optimizes the allocation of limited available channel bandwidth among video frames to maximize the overall visual quality. Our results show that DeepWiVe can overcome the cliff-effect , which is prevalent in conventional separation-based digital communication schemes, and achieve graceful degradation with the mismatch between the estimated and actual channel qualities. DeepWiVe outperforms H.264 video compression followed by low-density parity check (LDPC) codes in all channel conditions by up to 0.0485 in terms of the multi-scale structural similarity index measure (MS-SSIM), and H.265+ LDPC by up to 0.0069 on average. We also illustrate the importance of optimizing bandwidth allocation in JSCC video transmission by showing that our optimal bandwidth allocation policy is superior to uniform allocation as well as a heuristic policy benchmark.
Date Issued
2022-09
Date Acceptance
2022-06-07
Citation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2022, 40 (9), pp.2570-2583
ISSN
0733-8716
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
2570
End Page
2583
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume
40
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837870
Subjects
0805 Distributed Computing
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1005 Communications Technologies
Networking & Telecommunications
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-07-22