Context-Based Distributed Wavelet Video Coding

In this paper a novel scalable video coder, based on the principle of distributed source coding with side information is proposed. Coding scalability is achieved by means of bitplane coding in the wavelet domain. The distributed coding paradigm is applied to encode the wavelet coefficients of a given frame, by considering those of the previous frame as side information. LDPC syndrome encoding with proper context modeling of the frame correlation allowed us to significantly outperform intra coding obtained with JPEG 2000. Moreover, the proposed approach permits to perform motion compensation at the decoder side, thus opening a new perspective in the field of scalable video coding