Recursive Source Coding: A Theory for the Practice of Waveform Coding

✍ Scribed by G. Gabor, Z. Györfi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 106
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The spreading of digital technology has resulted in a dramatic increase in the demand for data compression (DC) methods. At the same time, the appearance of highly integrated elements has made more and more com­ plicated algorithms feasible. It is in the fields of speech and image trans­ mission and the transmission and storage of biological signals (e.g., ECG, Body Surface Mapping) where the demand for DC algorithms is greatest. There is, however, a substantial gap between the theory and the practice of DC: an essentially nonconstructive information theoretical attitude and the attractive mathematics of source coding theory are contrasted with a mixture of ad hoc engineering methods. The classical Shannonian infor­ mation theory is fundamentally different from the world of practical pro­ cedures. Theory places great emphasis on block-coding while practice is overwhelmingly dominated by theoretically intractable, mostly differential­ predictive coding (DPC), algorithms. A dialogue between theory and practice has been hindered by two pro­ foundly different conceptions of a data source: practice, mostly because of speech compression considerations, favors non stationary models, while the theory deals mostly with stationary ones.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Fine—McMillan Recursive Quantizer Model....Pages 1-13
Structural and Design Problems of a Recursive Quantizer....Pages 14-42
Differential Predictive Quantizers....Pages 43-66
Design Examples—Speech Compression....Pages 67-75
Back Matter....Pages 76-98

✦ Subjects

Communications Engineering, Networks;Coding and Information Theory;Image Processing and Computer Vision;Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering