Title :
On reducing granular distortion in multiple description quantization
Author :
Vaishampayan, Vinay A. ; Calderbank, A.R. ; Batllo, J.-C.
Author_Institution :
Inf. Sci. Res., AT&T Labs-Res., Florham Park, NJ, USA
Abstract :
There is a gap of 3.07 dB between the distortion product of a multiple description quantizer and the multiple description rate distortion bound. In this paper we seek to close this gap through the design of a quantizer with smaller granular distortion
Keywords :
quantisation (signal); rate distortion theory; source coding; trellis codes; distortion product; multiple description quantization; multiple description rate distortion bound; quantizer design; reducing granular distortion; Decoding; Entropy; Hypercubes; Performance gain; Quantization; Rate distortion theory; Rate-distortion; Research and development; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5000-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1998.708685
