Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks

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Distributed Video Coding: Principles and Challenges

Jürgen Slowack and Rik Van de Walle

CONTENTS

2.1    Introduction

2.2    Theoretical Foundations

2.2.1    Lossless Distributed Source Coding (Slepian–Wolf)

2.2.2    Lossy Compression with Receiver Side Information (Wyner–Ziv)

2.3    General Concept

2.4    Use-Case Scenarios in the Context of Wireless Networks

2.5    DVC Architectures and Components

2.5.1    Side Information Generation

2.5.1.1    Frame-Level Interpolation Strategies

2.5.1.2    Frame-Level Extrapolation Strategies

2.5.1.3    Encoder-Aided Techniques

2.5.1.4    Partitioning and Iterative Refinement

2.5.2    Correlation Noise Estimation

2.5.3    Channel Coding

2.5.4    Determining the WZ Rate

2.5.5    Transformation and Quantization ...