Overlapped block motion estimation and probabilistic compensation with application in distributed video coding
 
Overlapped block motion estimation and probabilistic compensation with application in distributed video coding 
 
 
Abstract 

It has been recently demonstrated that, in distributed video coding (DVC) side-information dependent modeling of the correlation channel brings significant performance gains over side-information independent assumptions. In this letter, we present a novel technique enabling advanced side-information dependent estimation of the correlation channel at the decoder starting from a very coarse knowledge of it. The proposed technique triggers the design of a spatial-domain DVC codec which enables the suppression of the feedback channel. Experimental results show that the proposed codec achieves similar performance compared to the state-of-the-art in transform-domain Wyner-Ziv video coding while still operating at a fraction of its encoding complexity.