The invention discloses an information source channel joint coding method for joint digital communication and analog communication. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, in a digital
branch, inputting a picture, and firstly performing down-sampling and image coding to obtain a code
stream; 2, in the analog
branch, subtracting the predicted value from the input picture to obtain a residual error, and performing learning-based transformation on the residual error to obtain a characteristic of the residual error; step 3,
bandwidth allocation is realized; 4, sending the characteristics subjected to
bandwidth allocation to a receiving end through a
wireless channel; 5, at a receiving end, the signals received by the digital branches are restored into predicted values through
demodulation, channel decoding, image decoding and up-sampling in sequence; and step 6, performing
demodulation and learning-based inverse transformation on the signals of the analog branches, reconstructing a residual error, and adding the residual error and a predicted value to obtain a reconstructed picture. According to the invention, source and channel coding is carried out by using a traditional separated coding method through a digital
branch, and transmission is carried out by using a residual error through an analog branch, so that better performance is realized.