H.264 standard based side information generation in Wyner-Ziv coding

The traditional video coding involves a high complexity encoder and relatively low complexity decoder. The complexity of the encoder is mainly due to motion estimation [3] and other prediction techniques employed . There is a new paradigm emerging in video coding - Distributed video coding (DVC). This is based on Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv6 theorems. In Wyner-Ziv video coding, encoder is less complex compared to the decoder. The decoder is very complex due to prediction involved for side information (SI) generation.;There is lot of research done previously on linear density parity check codes (LDPC) and H.263 standard based SI generation for Wyner-Ziv coding. In our approach, we consider LDPC codes for error control and H.264 standard based SI generation. The basic Wyner-Ziv encoder and decoder are implemented to test this method. This is then compared against other SI generation methods.