Robust quantization for image coding and noisy digital transmission

A robust quantizer is developed for encoding a variety of memoryless sources and transmission over the binary symmetric channel (BSC). The system combines channel optimized scalar quantization (COSQ) with all-pass filtering, the latter performed using a binary phase-scrambling/descrambling method. Applied to a broad class of sources, the robust quantizer achieves the same performance as the Gaussian COSQ for the memoryless Gaussian source. This quantizer is used for image coding for transmission over a BSC. An explicit error protection code is used only to protect the side information. The PSNR performance degrades gracefully as the channel bit error rate increases