A multiple description coding scheme based on the Chinese remainder theorem

A novel multiple description coding scheme based on the Chinese remainder theorem is presented. The main advantages of the scheme are the uniform diffusion of information to multiple packets, the flexible control mechanism over the representation redundancy, and the possibility of having a detail preserving post-processing routine to reduce the reconstruction error. We believe that the described Chinese Remainder Theorem based approach can be useful for other coding problems such as coding with side information and information hiding.