Distributed Source Coding: Theory and Practice

As DSC theoretical and algorithmic foundations have now been established, a comprehensive reference text on the subject is timely. The authors will combine the strict mathematical exposition of DSC with a more intuitive approach, and the book will be split into 3 distinct sections: theory, algorithms, and applications. Part one will cover the background of information theory and data compression, and the development of DSC, following both lossless and lossy compression. Part two will introduce and discuss designs of algorithmic solutions for DSC problems. It will cover the background of coding theory, then the evolution of code designs for the three most important DSC problems – Slepian-Wolf, Wyner-Ziv and MT source coding. It will also address the distributed joint source-channel coding problem and conclude with practical network coding of correlated sources. Part three will be dedicated to potential DSC applications, which are grouped as multimedia applications and wireless communication applications: the multimedia aspects will include image/video processing, Wyner-Ziv (distributed video coding), robust and scalable video, stereo/multiview video applications, multimedia streaming, biometrics, and multispectral/hyperspectral imaging; and the wireless focus will be dedicated to data gathering in wireless sensor networks, spectrum sensing in cognitive radio, compress-and-forward in cooperative communications scenarios, and DSC’s relationship to compressive sampling.

隨著DSC的理論和演算法基礎已經建立，現在是時候出版一本全面的參考書籍了。作者將結合對DSC的嚴謹數學解釋和更直觀的方法，將書籍分為三個不同的部分：理論、演算法和應用。第一部分將涵蓋信息理論和數據壓縮的背景，以及DSC的發展，包括無損和有損壓縮。第二部分將介紹和討論DSC問題的演算法解決方案的設計。它將涵蓋編碼理論的背景，然後介紹三個最重要的DSC問題（Slepian-Wolf、Wyner-Ziv和MT源編碼）的編碼設計演變。它還將討論分佈式聯合源-信道編碼問題，並以實際的相關源網絡編碼作為結尾。第三部分將專門介紹潛在的DSC應用，分為多媒體應用和無線通信應用：多媒體方面將包括圖像/視頻處理、Wyner-Ziv（分佈式視頻編碼）、強健和可擴展視頻、立體/多視圖視頻應用、多媒體流傳輸、生物特徵識別和多光譜/高光譜成像；而無線方面將專注於無線感測器網絡中的數據收集、認知無線電中的頻譜感測、合作通信場景中的壓縮轉發，以及DSC與壓縮採樣的關係。