CHAPTER 11 Video Compression for Camera Networks: A Distributed Approach

Marco Dalai, Riccardo Leonardi

Department of Electronics for Automation, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Abstract

The problem of finding efficient communication techniques to distribute multi-view video content across different devices and users in a network has received much attention in the last few years. One such approach is devoted to so-called distributed video coding (DVC). After briefly reporting traditional approaches to multi-view coding, this chapter will introduce DVC. The theoretical background of distributed source coding (DSC) is first presented; the problem of applying DSC to video sources is then analyzed. DVC approaches in both single-view and ...

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