Chroma components coding method in Distributed Video Coding

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a relatively new video compression paradigm for certain emerging applications and services such as wireless video surveillance networks, wireless video sensor networks and wireless mobile video. For these emerging applications, state-of-the-art predictive video coding standards are not suitable due to their high complex encoders. The DVC is still at research stage and practically not deployed yet, mainly due to several challenges including necessity of feedback channel, flicker, unavailability of entire coding method and standardization. The DVC architectures developed so far addressed only luma component coding methods and associated Rate Distortion (RD) performance. In this paper color components (chroma) coding method of DVC is proposed and developed `C´ model results are presented.