Research Letters in Signal Processing
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 421650, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/421650
Research Letter

On Optimal Bit Allocation for Classification-Based Source-Dependent Transform Coding

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA

Received 27 December 2007; Accepted 3 March 2008

Academic Editor: Jarmo Takala

Copyright © 2008 David Akopian. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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