Distributedsourcecodingisoneofthekeyenablersforefficientcooperativecommunication.Thepotentialapplicationsrangefromwirelesssensornetworks,ad-hocnetworks,andsurveillancenetworks,torobustlow-complexityvideocoding,stereo/Multiviewvideocoding,HDTV,hyper-spectralandmultispectralimaging,andbiometrics