Analysis of Optimal Filter Banks for Multiple Description Coding

  • Authors:
  • Pier Luigi Dragotti;Sergio Servetto;Martin Vetterli

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DCC '00 Proceedings of the Conference on Data Compression
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Multiple description coding (MDC) is a source coding technique for information transmission over unreliable channels (e.g. packet networks). In MDC, the coder generates several different descriptions of the same signal and the decoder can produce a useful reconstruction of the source with any received subset of these descriptions. The more description it gets the better the reconstruction quality will be.In this paper we focus our attention on MDC of wide sense stationary Gaussian processes. We present an approximated MD rate region and then we develop an algorithm for designing two-channel biorthogonal filter banks for optimal Multiple Description Coding of Gaussian sources.An application of the proposed algorithm to a first order Gauss-Markov process is also presented and the performance of the constructed filter bank is compared with the Multiple Description Scalar Quantizer (MDSQ), the Ozarow bounds and the approximated ideal bounds.