Rate region of gaussian multiple description coding with individual and central distortion constraints

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3991-4005

  Chen, Jun ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contra polymatroid; Entropy power inequality; Min max; Multiple description coding; Saddle point

Indexed keywords

CONTRA-POLYMATROID; GAUSSIANS; LOWER BOUNDS; MAX-MIN; MIN-MAX; MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING; SADDLE POINT; UPPER BOUND;

CONTROL THEORY; GAME THEORY;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 69449086305     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2025540     Document Type: Article

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