Source coding with intermittent and degraded side information at the decoder

Practical schemes for distributed video coding with side information at the decoder need to consider non-standard correlation models in order to take non-stationarities into account. In this paper we introduce two correlation models for Gaussian sources, the Gaussian-Bernoulli-Gaussian (GBG) and the Gaussian-Erasure (GE) models, and evaluate lower and upper bounds on their rate-distortion functions. Provided that the probability of impulse noise or of erasures remains small, these bounds remain close to the rate-distortion function for Gaussian correlation. Two practical schemes for the GE correlation model are also presented, with performance about 1.5 dB away from the upper bound. Index Terms — Source coding, rate-distortion theory, Wyner-Ziv coding 1