The DISCOVER codec: Architecture, Techniques and Evaluation

Abstract

Distributed Video Coding is becoming more and more popular \namong the research community, because of its interesting \ntheoretical contributions and because there are still many open problems waiting to be solved. This paper introduces the codec architecture and the associated tools adopted by DISCOVER (DIStributed COding for Video sERvices), a European project* which has been devoted to the advancement of Distributed Video Coding for two years. Along with the general description and pointers to references with more detailed information, this paper also presents some of the results obtained with the \nDISCOVER codec. An extended performance analysis and the \ncodec’s executable file are both publicly available on the \nproject’s web site www.discoverdvc.org.