The advent of wireless sensor technology and ad-hoc networks has made DSC a major field of interest. Edited and written by the leading players in the field, this book presents the latest theory, algorithms and applications, making it the definitive reference on DSC for systems designers and implementers, researchers, and graduate students. This book gives a clear understanding of the performance limits of distributed source coders for specific classes of sources and presents the design and application of practical algorithms for realistic scenarios. Material covered includes the use of standard channel codes, such as LDPC and Turbo codes, to DSC, and discussion of the suitability of compressed sensing for distributed compression of sparse signals. Extensive applications are presented and include distributed video coding, microphone arrays and securing biometric data.

Everything a signal and image processing engineer needs to know about distributed source coding - theorems, practical algorithms for design and the latest applications.

About the Author
Pier Luigi Dragotti is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial College, London. He has worked as a researcher at Bell Labs and EPFL and is a member of the IEEE Image and MultiDimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) Technical Committee. Michael Gastpar is currently an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience. He won the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008.

Reviews
"This book is a great resource covering the breadth and depth of distributed source coding that's appropriate for everyone from theoreticians to practitioners." --Richard Baraniuk, Rice University



Book Information
ISBN 9780123744852
Author Pier Luigi Dragotti
Format Hardback
Page Count 360
Imprint Academic Press Inc
Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 1000g