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Multiterminal source coding for multiview images under wireless fading channels

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This paper addresses the problem of wireless transmission of a captured scene from multiple cameras, which do not communicate among each other, to a joint decoder. Correlation among different camera views calls for distributed source coding for efficient multiview image compression. The fact that cameras are placed within a short range of each other results in a high level of interference, multipath fading, and noise effects during communications. We develop a novel two-camera system, that employs multiterminal source coding and complete complementary data spreading, so that while the former technique exploits the statistical correlation between camera views, and performs joint compression to reduce transmission rates, the spreading technique will protect transmitted data by mitigating the effects of wireless fading channels. Our results indicate that the proposed system is competitive when compared to two independently JPEG encoded streams at low to medium transmission rates.

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Abbreviations

MT-SC:

Multiterminal source coding

JPEG:

Joint photographic expert group

CC:

Complete Complementary sequences

SW:

Slepian Wolf

WZ:

Wyner Ziv

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  1. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XW, UK

    Chadi Khirallah, Vladimir Stankovic & Lina Stankovic

  2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schusterman Center, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, 74135-2512, USA

    Samuel Cheng

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This work is supported by EPSRC Research Grant EP/E021964/1.

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Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L. et al. Multiterminal source coding for multiview images under wireless fading channels. Multimed Tools Appl 48, 457–470 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-009-0313-9

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