title: Joint source-channel coding using real BCH codes for robust image transmission.
abstract: In this paper, a new still image coding scheme is presented. In contrast with standard tandem coding schemes, where the redundancy is introduced after source coding, it is introduced before source coding using real BCH codes. A joint channel model is first presented. The model corresponds to a memoryless mixture of Gaussian and Bernoulli-Gaussian noise. It may represent the source coder, the channel coder, the physical channel, and their corresponding decoder. Decoding algorithms are derived from this channel model and compared to a state-of-art real BCH decoding scheme. A further comparison with two reference tandem coding schemes and the proposed joint coding scheme for the robust transmission of still images has been presented. When the tandem scheme is not accurately tuned, the joint coding scheme outperforms the tandem scheme in all situations. Compared to a tandem scheme well tuned for a given channel situation, the joint coding scheme shows an increased robustness as the channel conditions worsen. The soft performance degradation observed when the channel worsens gives an additional advantage to the joint source-channel coding scheme for fading channels, since a reconstruction with moderate quality may be still possible, even if the channel is in a deep fade.
authors.affiliation: The authors are with Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, CNRS - Supélec- Univ Paris-Sud, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. avi_gabay@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Abraham Avi
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Gabay
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kieffer
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Duhamel
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003198:Computer Simulation; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted