本篇論文提出一個採用分散式訊號源編碼(DSC)的概念來增進影像傳輸可靠性的架構。在這個架構中串聯兩種前向錯誤更正(FEC)編碼器，一個是為了做資料壓縮，將二進制訊號源編碼成Syndrome。另一個是為了做錯誤更正，將Syndrome編碼成Parity。實驗結果顯示在高編碼率時，此架構的錯誤更正能力優於單一前向錯誤更正編碼器。我們應用此架構於H.264/AVC影像傳輸並且和系統式失真錯誤保護(SLEP)比較結果。在模擬無線傳輸的狀況下，當BER為10-4、傳輸通道為二進制對稱通道(BSC)時，我們的PSNR能優於系統式失真錯誤保護14.624 dB。

This thesis presents a scheme by adopting the concept of distributed source coding (DSC) to improve the reliability of video transmission. This scheme concatenates two kinds of forward error corrections (FEC) encoders. One encodes the binary source into the syndrome for data compression. The other encodes the syndrome into the parity for error protection. The simulation results show that the correction capacity of our scheme is better than the single FEC encoder in the high code rate. We employ this scheme for H.264/AVC video transmission and compare results with systematic lossy error protection (SLEP). In the wireless scenario, the PSNR of our scheme is 14.624 dB higher than SLEP at 10-4 bit error rate on the binary symmetric channel (BSC).

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