DocumentCode
1748028
Title
Rate distortion bounds via threshold-based classification
Author
Weidmann, Claudio
Author_Institution
Commun. Syst. Dept., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
169
Abstract
We present parametric upper bounds on the distortion rate function of memoryless sources. In particular, these bounds are useful for sparse sources with a peaked, heavy-tailed PDF. In addition we study the geometric mean as a measure of sparseness
Keywords
memoryless systems; probability; rate distortion theory; source coding; distortion rate function; geometric mean; lossy encoding; memoryless sources; parametric upper bounds; peaked heavy-tailed PDF; rate distortion bounds; real-valued memoryless source; source coding; sparse sources; sparseness measure; squared error distortion measure; threshold-based classification; Decoding; Distortion measurement; Encoding; Entropy; Loss measurement; Network address translation; Rate distortion theory; Rate-distortion; Tail; Upper bound;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Theory, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7123-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.2001.936032
Filename
936032
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