Distributed Video Coding Using LDPC Codes for Wireless Video

P. APARNA, Sivaprakash REDDY, Sumam DAVID
DOI: 10.4236/wsn.2009.14041                

Abstract

Popular video coding standards like H.264 and MPEG working on the principle of motion-compensated pre-dictive coding demand much of the computational resources at the encoder increasing its complexity. Such bulky encoders are not suitable for applications like wireless low power surveillance, multimedia sensor networks, wireless PC cameras, mobile camera phones etc. New video coding scheme based on the principle of distributed source coding is looked upon in this paper. This scheme supports a low complexity encoder, at the same time trying to achieve the rate distortion performance of conventional video codecs. Current im-plementation uses LDPC codes for syndrome coding.

Keywords

Syndrome Coding, Cosets, Distributed Source Coding, Distributed Video Coding (DVC).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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