• DocumentCode
    774900
  • Title

    An Improvement of the Minimum Distortion Encoding Algorithm for Vector Quantization

  • Author

    Bei, Chang-Da ; Gray, Robert M.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Science and Tech., Hefei, Anhui, China
  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1985
  • fDate
    10/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1132
  • Lastpage
    1133
  • Abstract
    In this note we present a very simple method for improving the efficiency of minimum distortion encoding for vector quantization. Simulations indicates a reduction of up to 70 percent in the number of multiplications for a full search vector quantizer with a large number of codewords, and about 25-40 percent for a tree search vector quantizer. Similar improvement can be achieved in other vector quantization systems.
  • Keywords
    Coding/decoding; Quantization (signal); Signal quantization; Communications Society; Computational complexity; Computational modeling; Distortion measurement; Encoding; Flowcharts; Information systems; Laboratories; Performance loss; Vector quantization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOM.1985.1096214
  • Filename
    1096214