Analysis and further results on adaptive entropy-coded quantization

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Buffer underflow and overflow problems associated with entropy coding are completely eliminated by effectively imposing reflecting walls at the buffer endpoints. Synchronous operation of the AECQ (adaptive entropy-coded quantizer) encoder and decoder is examined in detail, and it is shown that synchronous operation is easily achieved without side information. A method is developed to explicitly solve for the buffer-state probability distribution and the resulting average distortion when memoryless buffer-state feedback is used as well as when the source is stationary and memoryless. This method is then used as a tool in the design of low-distortion AECQ systems, with particular attention given to developing source scale-invariant distortion performance. It is shown that the introduction of reflecting buffer walls in a properly designed AECQ system results in a very small rate-distortion performance penalty and that the resulting AECQ system can be an extremely simple and effective solution to the stationary memoryless source-coding problem for a wide range of source types. Operation with nonstationary sources is also examined

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