Block-Adaptive Wyner-Ziv Coding for Transform-Domain Distributed Video Coding

This paper presents a transform-domain distributed video compression (DVC) system with block-adaptive Wyner-Ziv coding. In the proposed system, the source symbols are reformatted into several blocks. The parity bits are requested only for the blocks with decoding errors. More accurate placement of the parity bits results in an improved system performance that is much closer to the performance of H.263 interframe coding as compared to existing DCT-based DVC schemes. Coding results and comparison with existing DVC schemes and with H.263 are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed system.