title: Fast algorithm for distortion-based error protection of embedded image codes.
abstract: We consider a joint source-channel coding system that protects an embedded bitstream using a finite family of channel codes with error detection and error correction capability. The performance of this system may be measured by the expected distortion or by the expected number of correctly decoded source bits. Whereas a rate-based optimal solution can be found in linear time, the computation of a distortion-based optimal solution is prohibitive. Under the assumption of the convexity of the operational distortion-rate function of the source coder, we give a lower bound on the expected distortion of a distortion-based optimal solution that depends only on a rate-based optimal solution. Then, we propose a local search (LS) algorithm that starts from a rate-based optimal solution and converges in linear time to a local minimum of the expected distortion. Experimental results for a binary symmetric channel show that our LS algorithm is near optimal, whereas its complexity is much lower than that of the previous best solution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany. hamzaoui@inf.uni-konstanz.de
authors.forename: Raouf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hamzaoui
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stanković
authors.forename: Zixiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xiong
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted