EURASIP 2014 - Special Issue on Advances in Distributed Source Coding

The main objective of the special issue is to present the recent advances in distributed source coding and
draw the attention of the signal processing community to a rapidly evolving domain and its applications.
Distributed Source Coding (DSC) establishes its grounds in the information theoretic results derived by
Slepian and Wolf and Wyner and Ziv at the beginning of the ‘70s. This research area became very active in
the past decade, triggered by the application of DSC principles in the first distributed video coding (DVC)
designs. Following a series of successful developments, DVC has gained momentum as a competitive coding
paradigm, notably by providing a flexible distribution of computational complexity between the encoder
and the decoder, codec independent scalability, robust transmission, and suppression of inter-camera
communication in multiview video coding applications. The research in distributed source coding has
continued to flourish, expanding in a broad range of domains, including wireless sensor networks, data
authentication and tampering localization, biometrics, medical imaging, or hyperspectral imaging.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
7 Side information generation techniques
7 Correlation channel estimation
7 Error resilience in DSC systems
7 Scalability in DSC systems
7 Theoretical analysis and code design in DSC
7 Symmetric schemes for DSC
7 Distributed video and multiview video coding
7 Distributed multiple description source coding
7 Feedback channel free distributed video coding
7 DSC in wireless sensor networks
7 DSC for data authentication and tampering localization
7 DSC in secure biometrics applications
7 DSC for multispectral and hyperspectral image compression
7 DSC in medical applications
Guest Editors
Adrian Munteanu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Brussel,
BELGIUM, Email 7 acmuntea-AT-etro.vub.ac.be
Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Telecom ParisTech, Signal and Image Processing Department, Paris, FRANCE,
Email 7 pesquet-AT-telecom-paristech.fr
Vladimir Stankovic, University of Strathclyde, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland,
UNITED KINGDOM, Email 7 vladimir.stankovic-AT-strath.ac.uk
Samuel Cheng, Telecommunications, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, USA,
Email 7 Samuel.Cheng-AT-ou.edu
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisboa, PORTUGAL,
Email 7 Fernando.Pereira-AT-lx.it.pt