Wavelet based distributed video coding with spatial scalability

In this paper, an improved spatial scalable wavelet domain distributed video coding (DVC) scheme is proposed. In this scheme, we adaptively apply differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding and discrete cosine transform (DCT) based intra block coding to reduced-resolution layer. Due to the low energy nature of high-pass subbands, WZ coding can be directly used. At decoder, in full-resolution layer WZ frame decoding, an efficient side information (SI) generation technique for low-pass subband is proposed, in which motion compensated interpolation (MCI) is performed on full-resolution signal. On the other hand, a refined technique is also employed to generate the SI for high-pass subbands by taking advantage of inter-band correlation. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme provides an efficient wavelet domain DVC coding paradigm.