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S. Voran, "The Channel-Optimized Multiple-Description Scalar Quantizer," Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Calloway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia, October 13-16 2002.

Abstract:
Multiple-description coding is one way to gain robustness against lossy channels. We extend the multiple-description scalar quantizer (MDSQ) to a channel-optimized MDSQ (COMDSQ) that minimizes mean-squared error for a given channel environment. We discuss necessary and sufficient conditions for the optimality of M-channel COMDSQ’s and provide procedures for the design of 2-channel COMDSQ’s. We provide example results including audio files from waveform and transform coders that employ COMDSQ’s.

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