This paper proposes a new technique based on vector quantization (VQ) for very low bit-rate encoding of multispectral images. The new algorithm relies on the observation that in high spectral-resolution imagery the sh...
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This paper proposes a new technique based on vector quantization (VQ) for very low bit-rate encoding of multispectral images. The new algorithm relies on the observation that in high spectral-resolution imagery the shape of a generic spatial block does not change significantly from band to band. Therefore, it is reasonable to represent each 3-D spatial/spectral block as the Kronecker product of a spatial-shape vector and a spectral-gain vector, and to jointly quantize only these representative vectors in place of the original block. Even though such an encoding strategy is suboptimal with respect to full-search VQ, the huge complexity reduction allows one to use much larger blocks and to better exploit the redundancy among close pixels of the image. Numerical experiments carried out on high spectral-resolution images show fully satisfactory results, with compression ratios exceeding 100:1, good image quality and very low encoding complexity.
The paper describes a vector quantization technique which can be added to a standard codec, like H.263, in order to improve its performance for very high compression. The main idea is to convert two chrominance compon...
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The paper describes a vector quantization technique which can be added to a standard codec, like H.263, in order to improve its performance for very high compression. The main idea is to convert two chrominance components of a video-telephone signal into one scalar signal. This scalar chrominance signal is then compressed in a motion compensated coder. The crucial problem is proper ordering of the pixel numbers which are labels of the codebook entries. This ordering dramatically influences the performance of the coder.
Efficient compression of binary textual images is very important for applications such as document archiving and retrieval, digital libraries and facsimile. The basic property of a textual image is the repetitions of ...
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Efficient compression of binary textual images is very important for applications such as document archiving and retrieval, digital libraries and facsimile. The basic property of a textual image is the repetitions of small character images and curves inside the document. Exploiting the redundancy of these repetitions is the key step in most of the coding algorithms. We use a similar compression method in the subband domain. Four different subband decomposition schemes are described and their performance on a textual image compression algorithm is examined. Experimentally, it is found that the described methods accomplish high compression ratios and they are suitable for fast database access and keyword search.
This paper presents a frame-work for live multicast of video streams over the Internet. The overall system combines a scalable video compression algorithm, a cheap software only real-time video encoder and decoder, an...
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This paper presents a frame-work for live multicast of video streams over the Internet. The overall system combines a scalable video compression algorithm, a cheap software only real-time video encoder and decoder, and a network unit. The scalable compression algorithm produces an embedded bit-stream to support decoders with various spatial and temporal resolutions. Bandwidth scalability with a dynamic range from a few Kbps to several Mbps is provided. The subjective quality of compressed frames improves significantly by the use of perceptual distortion measures. For cheap software only encoding and decoding we use hierarchical table-lookup vector quantization. Multiple multicast groups are used for the delivery of the scalable streams over the Internet.
This paper describes a new compression method for interlaced stereoscopic image sequences, which compacts the stereo information into the spectral space of a single NTSC channel. The left and right fields of the stere...
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This paper describes a new compression method for interlaced stereoscopic image sequences, which compacts the stereo information into the spectral space of a single NTSC channel. The left and right fields of the stereoscopic pairs are each decomposed into a lowpass and a highpass components. High-frequency components are limited to an area of fixation, thus allowing a reduction of their spectral extent. A composite video signal is then formed by positioning the different components in the available spectral space through filtering and modulation. Compatibility of the produced signal with the NTSC standard is ensured by using the same spectral region for the chrominance information and the same colour subcarrier. Good quality results are obtained with relatively simple 2D separable spatial filters at a reasonable computational cost.
Image and video compression has become an increasingly important and active area. Many techniques have been developed in this area. Any compression technique can be modeled as a three-stage process. The first stage ca...
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Image and video compression has become an increasingly important and active area. Many techniques have been developed in this area. Any compression technique can be modeled as a three-stage process. The first stage can be generally called a signal processing stage where an image or video signal is converted into a different domain. Usually, there is no or little loss of information in this stage. The second stage is quantization where loss of information occurs. The third stage is lossless coding that generates the compressed bit stream. The purpose of the signal processing stage is to convert an image or video signal into such a form that quantization can achieve better performance than without the signal processing stage. Because the quantization stage is the place where most of compression is achieved and loss of information occurs, it is naturally the central stage of any compression technique. Since scalar quantization or vector quantization may be used in the second stage, the operation in the first stage should be scalar-based or vector-based respectively in order to match the second stage so that the compression performance can be optimized. In this paper, we summarize the most recent research results on vector-based signal processing and quantization techniques that have shown high compression performance.
We present a novel technique for the design of filters for random noise, leading to a class of filters called Occam filters. The essence of the technique is that when a lossy data compression algorithm is applied to a...
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We present a novel technique for the design of filters for random noise, leading to a class of filters called Occam filters. The essence of the technique is that when a lossy data compression algorithm is applied to a noisy signal with the allowed loss set equal to the noise strength, the loss and the noise tend to cancel rather than add. We give two illustrative applications of the technique to univariate signals. We also prove asymptotic convergence bounds on the effectiveness of Occam filters.
This paper presents some new techniques of spectral and spatial decorrelation in lossless data compression of remotely sensed imagery. These techniques provide methods to efficiently compute the optimal band combinati...
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This paper presents some new techniques of spectral and spatial decorrelation in lossless data compression of remotely sensed imagery. These techniques provide methods to efficiently compute the optimal band combination and band ordering based on the statistical properties of Landsat-TM data. Experiments on several Landsat-TM images show that using both the spectral and the spatial nature of the remotely sensed data results in significant improvement over spatial decorrelation alone. These techniques result in higher compression ratios and are computationally inexpensive.
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