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Construction of Symmetrical Reversible Variable-Length Codes from the Huffman Code  

Jeong Wook-Hyun (Department of Information and Communications, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Ho Yo-Sung (Department of Information and Communications, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
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Abstract
Although variable-length codes (VLCs) increase coding efficiency using the statistical characteristics of the source data, they have catastrophic effects from bit errors in noisy transmission environments. In order to overcome this problem with VLCs, reversible variable-length codes (RVLCS) have recently been proposed owing to their data recovering capability. RVLCS can be divided into two categories: symmetrical and asymmetrical RVLCs. Although the symmetrical RVLC has generally more overheads than the asymmetrical RVLC, it has some advantages of simpler design and more efficient memory usage. However, existing symmetrical RVLCs still have high complexity in their code design and some room for improvement in coding efficiency. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for constructing a symmetrical RVLC from the optimal Huffman code table. The proposed algorithm has a simpler design process and also demonstrates improved performance in terms of the average codeword length relative to the existing symmetrical RVLC algorithms.
Keywords
Error resilience; H.263; Huffman code; MPEG-4; Reversible variable length code (RVLC).;
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