MultistageVectorQuantization(MSVQ)canachieveverylowencodingandstoragecomplexityincomparisontounstructuredvectorquantization.However,theconventionalMSVQissuboptimalwithrespecttotheoverallperformancemeasure.Thispaperproposesanewtechnologytodesignthedecodercodebook,whichisdifferentfromtheencodercodebooktooptimisetheoverallperformance.Theperformanceimprovementisachievedwithnoeffectonencodingcomplexity,bothstorageandtimeconsuming,butamodestincreaseinstoragecomplexityofdecoder.
