Distributed Video Coding in Pixel Domain Using Spatial Correlation at the Decoder

Abstract

Distributed coding is a new paradigm for video compression based on Slepian-Wolf (1973) and Wyner-Ziv (1976) theorems. In this paper, we propose a new pixel-domain Distributed Video Coding (DVC) scheme, in which both the temporal and the spatial correlations are exploited only at the decoder. A joint source-channel decoding is implemented to exploit the source statistics. Iterations between the Map channel decoder and the BCJR source decoder are made to improve the global decoder performance. Simulations results show that a gain is obtained, in term of rate, with iterative joint source-channel decoding, compared to the basic decoding.