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The rate-distortion (RD) performance of distributed video codecs substantially lags the conventional predictive video coding. Several techniques and methods are employed in DVC to overcome this performance gap and achieve high coding efficiency while maintaining low encoder computational complexity. However, it is still challenging to achieve coding efficiency and limit the computational complexity of the encoding and decoding process. The deployment of distributed residual video coding (DRVC) improves coding efficiency, but significant enhancements are still required to reduce these gaps. This paper proposes the QUAntized Transform ResIdual Decision (QUATRID) scheme that improves the coding efficiency by deploying the Quantized Transform Decision Mode (QUAM) at the encoder. The proposed QUATRID scheme\u2019s main contribution is a design and integration of a novel QUAM method into DRVC that effectively skips the zero quantized transform (QT) blocks, thus limiting the number of input bit planes to be channel encoded and consequently reducing both the channel encoding and decoding computational complexity. Moreover, an online correlation noise model (CNM) is specifically designed for the QUATRID scheme and implemented at its decoder. This online CNM improves the channel decoding process and contributes to the bit rate reduction. Finally, a methodology for the reconstruction of the residual frame (R^) is developed that utilizes the decision mode information passed by the encoder, decoded quantized bin, and transformed estimated residual frame. The Bj\u00f8ntegaard delta analysis of experimental results shows that the QUATRID achieves better performance over the DISCOVER by attaining the PSNR between 0.06 dB and 0.32 dB and coding efficiency, which varies from 5.4 to 10.48 percent. In addition to this, results determine that for all types of motion videos, the proposed QUATRID scheme outperforms the DISCOVER in terms of reducing the number of input bit-planes to be channel encoded and the entire encoder\u2019s computational complexity. The number of bit plane reduction exceeds 97%, while the entire Wyner-Ziv encoder and channel coding computational complexity reduce more than nine-fold and 34-fold, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e25020241","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,30]],"date-time":"2023-01-30T04:31:27Z","timestamp":1675053087000},"page":"241","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Low Computational Coding-Efficient Distributed Video Coding: Adding a Decision Mode to Limit Channel Coding Load"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3561-8471","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shahzad","family":"Khursheed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Institute of Health and Analytics, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5666-3984","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nasreen","family":"Badruddin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Institute of Health and Analytics, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Varun","family":"Jeoti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}]},{"given":"Dejan","family":"Vukobratovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6617-8149","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Manzoor Ahmed","family":"Hashmani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High Performance Cloud Computing Center (HPC3), Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"471","DOI":"10.1109\/TIT.1973.1055037","article-title":"Noiseless coding of correlated information sources","volume":"19","author":"Slepian","year":"1973","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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