• DocumentCode
    752186
  • Title

    The pros and cons of democracy

  • Author

    Calderbank, A.R. ; Daubechies, I.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1721
  • Lastpage
    1725
  • Abstract
    We introduce the concept of "democracy," in which the individual bits in a coarsely quantized representation of a signal are all given "equal weight" in the approximation to the original signal. We prove that such democratic representations cannot achieve the same accuracy as optimal nondemocratic schemes
  • Keywords
    decoding; encoding; quantisation (signal); signal representation; decoding; democracy; democratic representation; encoding; nondemocratic representation; optimal accuracy; quantized signal representation; sigma-delta converters; signal approximation; Analog-digital conversion; Approximation algorithms; Approximation error; Convolution; Decoding; Filters; Mathematics; Military computing; Quantization; Sampling methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2002.1003852
  • Filename
    1003852