A survey of error-concealment schemes for real-time audio and video transmissions over the Internet

Abstract

Real-time audio and video data streamed over unreliable IP networks, such as the Internet, may encounter losses due to dropped packets or late arrivals. This paper reviews error-concealment schemes developed for streaming real-time audio and video data over the Internet. Based on their interactions with (video or audio) source coders, we classify existing techniques into source coder-independent schemes that treat underlying source coders as black boxes, and source coder-dependent schemes that exploit coder-specific characteristics to perform reconstruction. Last, we identify possible future research directions.