Quantitative performance evaluation of distributed video coding

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is evolving as next generation video coding method for certain emerging applications and services including mobile video, wireless camera, wireless surveillance networks etc. On the contrary to its predecessor standards such as H.264/5, MPEG4, VC1, VP6/7/8/9 and AVS1/2; DVC is designed to have low complex encoder, even at the expense of high complex decoder. Though concept was developed way back in 2002 by Stanford and Berkeley Universities and further research has been carried out, DVC has not yet reached a state, at which it can be practically deployed. This paper highlights quantitative performance evaluation of DVC codec and its major bottlenecks, which are potential show stoppers for practical deployment.