Special issue on distributed video coding

Special issue on image and video coding beyond standards

Today’s visual information coding standards or de facto adopted methods are the fruits of a tremendous evolution, over the past decades, in several converging (elds, from information theory to signal processing and computer science. Major milestones like arithmetic coding or wavelet theory have paved the way to e,cient coding methods. The optimality of the so-called classical coding methods can...

Special issue on network coding

Future networks are expected to depart from traditional routing schemes in order to embrace network coding (NC)-based schemes. These have created a lot of interest both in academia and industry in recent years. Under the NC paradigm, symbols are transported through the network by combining several information streams originating from the same or different sources. This special issue contains th...

Introduction: Special Issue on Distributed Constraint Satisfaction

Constraint satisfaction is one of the most successful problem solving paradigms in Artificial Intelligence. Since its original development over 30 years ago [2–4], it has found numerous applications in almost all areas of AI. Its most common applications today are in configuration, planning, scheduling and resource allocation, and form the basis of a significant software industry. With increasi...

Distributed Coding of Endoscopic Video Distributed Coding of Endoscopic Video

Triggered by the challenging prerequisites of wireless capsule endoscopic video technology, this paper presents a novel distributed video coding (DVC) scheme, which employs an original hash-based side-information creation method at the decoder. In contrast to existing DVC schemes, the proposed codec generates high quality side-information at the decoder, even under the strenuous motion conditio...

Introduction to the special issue on the H.264/AVC video coding standard