PRISM: a "reversed" multimedia coding paradigm

In this work, we present PRISM (power-efficient, robust, high-compression, syndrome-based multimedia coding), a video coding paradigm based on the principles of coding with side information (which, unlike the classical Wyner-Ziv coding scenario Wyner, A et al. (1976), is characterized by an ambiguous state of nature characterizing the side-information Ishwar, P et al. (2003)). PRISM's architectural goals are to inherit the low encoding complexity and robustness of motion-JPEG style intra-frame video codecs while approaching the high compression efficiency of full-motion interframe video codecs. The PRISM paradigm roughly swaps the encoder-decoder complexity with respect to conventional video coding architectures through the novel concept of moving the motion compensation task from the encoder to the decoder. These traits make PRISM well-matched to uplink-rich media applications involving wireless video and security cameras, multimedia-equipped phones and PDA's etc.