A new approach to generate side information for distributed video coding in capsule endoscopy

This paper presents a new approach to generate side information for distributed video coding (DVC) for wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE). WCE allowed facilitating the diagnosis; however, the problem of low energy limits its image quality and duration of use. To reduce this problem, the proposed codec uses a database to generate side information (SI), by exploiting similarity in human anatomy rather than motion compensation. The first test results prove the feasibility of this technique and show good compression and good image quality compared to JPEG.