Nonlinear sparse-graph codes for lossy compression

  • Authors:
  • Ankit Gupta;Sergio Verdú

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a scheme for lossy compression of discrete memorylesssources: The compressor is the decoder of a nonlinear channel code, constructed from a sparse graph. We prove asymptotic optimality of the scheme for any separable (letter-by-letter) bounded distortion criterion. We also present a suboptimal compression algorithm, which exhibits near-optimal performance for moderate block lengths.