Multiple description wavelet-based image coding using correlating transforms

The objective of multiple description coding (MDC) is to represent a source into multiple descriptions such that various reconstruction qualities are obtained from different subsets of the descriptions. In this paper, we propose a simple scheme that combines the multiple descriptions transform coding (MDTC) method with the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). We compare the performance of the proposed scheme with a discrete cosine transform (DCT)-based scheme prevalent in other papers. Simulation results show that our proposed DWT technique outperforms both objectively and subjectively the method based on DCT in the case of packet loss. (C) 2006 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.