Although it was proven in the 1970s already by Wyner and Ziv and Slepian and Wolf that,
under certain conditions, the same rate–distortion boundaries exist for distributed video
coding (DVC) systems as for traditional predicting systems, until now no practical DVC
system has been developed that even comes close to the performance of state-of-the-art
video codecs such as H. 264/AVC in terms of rate–distortion. Some important factors for this
are the lower accuracy of the motion estimation performed at the decoder, the inaccurate …