IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Technical Paper Review Form
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Number of Pages Submitted _______6________
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Author(s)____M. A. U. Khan _______________
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Title____Design and Analysis of sigma Tree__
__based Trellis-coded Residual Vector _______
__Quantization____________________________
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Name of Associate: ___________
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I.
REVIEW
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A.
Suitability of Topic
1.
Is the topic appropriate for publication in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters?
X Yes
 Perhaps
 No
2.
Is the topic important to colleagues working in the field?
X Yes
 Moderately so
 No (explain)
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How would you rate the technical novelty of the paper?
_____ Novel
__X__ Somewhat Novel
_____ Not Novel
B.
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C.
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2.
Presentation
How would you rate the English usage?
X Satisfactory
 Needs Improvement
 Poor
Rate the references?
X Satisfactory
 Unsatisfactory (explain)
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II RECOMMENDATION
 A Publish Unaltered
 AQ Publish with Minor, Required Changes (as noted in Section III)
X R Reject (Paper is seriously flawed and should not be resubmitted.)
III Comments:
The author describes a novel sigma tree based design of a TCRVQ. TCVRQs have been
exploited in literature with interesting result and this design is, to the best of my knowledge,
original. Unfortunately, the paper only reports of a series of experiments and the
results of these experiments are very poor. The only case in which this design
improves upon a TCVRQ is in the case of a 2 dimensional uniform source encoded at
2 bit/sample and, even in this case, the improvement is marginal (0.09dB).
No sufficient justification is given in the paper on why this method has some advantage
over more traditional designs and no theoretical analysis is present.
IV.
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