Low Density Codes Achieve theRate-Distortion Bound

  • Authors:
  • Emin Martinian;Martin Wainwright

  • Affiliations:
  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs;University of California at Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • DCC '06 Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a new construction for low-density source codes with multiple parameters that can be tuned to optimize the performance of the code. In addition, we introduce a set of analysis techniques for deriving upper bounds for the expected distortion of our construction, as well as more general low-density constructions. We show that (with an optimal encoding algorithm) our codes achieve the rate-distortion bound for a binary symmetric source and Hamming distortion. Our methods also provide rigorous upper bounds on the minimum distortion achievable by previously proposed low-density constructions.