• DocumentCode
    1148495
  • Title

    Clustering SPIHT output bits for wireless communications

  • Author

    Fang, Jiunn-Tsair ; Shyu, Woei-Luen ; Wu, Cheng-Shong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Chia-Yi, Taiwan
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    1/23/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    235
  • Lastpage
    236
  • Abstract
    The importance of SPIHT output bits is quantified in bit error sensitivity (BES). Further, C-SPIHT is proposed to cluster output bits so that different bit-clusters have distinct but similar BES. Under wireless communications, this property helps to design unequal error protection. A fixed-length coding format is also adopted to improve error-resilience.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; image coding; radiocommunication; visual communication; BES; C-SPIHT; SPIHT output bits; bit error sensitivity; bit-clusters; clustering SPIHT; error-resilience; fixed-length coding format; hierarchical trees; image transmission; output bits clustering; set partitioning; unequal error protection; wireless communications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20030175
  • Filename
    1179539