Importance of side information generation for distributed video coding

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new coding paradigm, based on two information-theoretic results, which allows exploiting source statistics at the decoder only. This architecture, therefore, enables very simple encoders to be used in video coding. Wyner-Ziv video coding is a particular case of DVC which deals with lossy source coding where side information is available at the decoder only. In this paper, the performance improvement of Wyner-Ziv coding by using better side information generated by motion compensated frame interpolation algorithms proposed in literature is examined.