An integrated framework of optimal rate allocation for video coding is presented in the case of transmission over wireless channels without feedback channels. For a fixed channel bit rate and finite number of channel coding rate, the proposed scheme can find the optimal source and channel coding pair and corresponding robust video coding scheme such that the expected end-to-end distortion of vi...

The need for a neuronal coding scheme that is robust against the corruption of action potentials seems to support the idea of population rate coding, where the relevance of a single spike decreases proportional to the increase of population size. In order to test this intuition, we here investigate the e*ciency and robustness of a population rate coding scheme in comparison to a place coding sc...

We introduce a distributed source coding scheme called successive Wyner-Ziv coding scheme. We show that any point in the rate region of the quadratic Gaussian CEO problem can be achieved via the successive Wyner-Ziv coding. The notion of successive refinement in the single source coding is generalized to the distributed source coding scenario, which we refer to as distributed successive refinem...