Transform coding methods play a very important role in the development of diverse multimedia technologies. The discrete cosine and wavelet transforms are frequently used in the field of image processing and set up a b...
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Transform coding methods play a very important role in the development of diverse multimedia technologies. The discrete cosine and wavelet transforms are frequently used in the field of image processing and set up a basis for contemporary image compression standards (JPEG, MPEG). In this paper a novel two-channel piecewise-linear subbandcoding scheme (PL-SBC) is introduced. Its most important advantage are exceptionally fast and easy for implementation computational algorithms combined with good reconstruction quality. The proposed PLSBC system is based on the dual filter bank consisting of a single filter at the decomposition stage and a single one at the reconstruction stage. For the presented PL-SBC scheme, the conditions of perfect reconstruction and the piecewise-linear approximation filter bank have been defined. The compression properties of a new subbandcoding scheme have been analysed for different categories of images and in comparison with well-known signal transforms, such as cosine, piecewise-linear, piecewise-constant and wavelet transforms. The research includes a comparison of the reconstruction error both in objective as well as subjective approach.
The geometric features of images, such as edges, are difficult to represent. When a redundant transform is used for their extraction, the compression challenge is even more difficult. In this paper we present a new ra...
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(纸本)9781424414369
The geometric features of images, such as edges, are difficult to represent. When a redundant transform is used for their extraction, the compression challenge is even more difficult. In this paper we present a new rate-distortion optimization algorithm based on graph theory that can encode efficiently the coefficients of a critically sampled, non-orthogonal or even redundant transform, like the contourlet decomposition. The basic idea is to construct a specialized graph such that its minimum cut minimizes the energy functional. We propose to apply this technique for rate-distortion Lagrangian optimization in subband image coding. The method yields good compression results compared to the state-of-art JPEG2000 codec, as well as a general improvement in visual quality.
subband image coding with classical wavelet transforms inherently provides dyadic scalability since the low-pass approximation band can be used as a half-sized version of the original image. The multiresolution approa...
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subband image coding with classical wavelet transforms inherently provides dyadic scalability since the low-pass approximation band can be used as a half-sized version of the original image. The multiresolution approach further provides scalability factors that are powers of two, but no other factors can be easily reached. On the other hand, a hierarchical scheme based on M-bandtransforms will lead only to scalability factors that are powers of M. In this letter, we present how an M-band synthesis filter bank can be modified in order to directly reconstruct an output image of a resolution reduced by a factor M/P, where P is an integer lower than M. As the analysis filter bank is not modified, this technique allows the design of subband decoding schemes that support fractional scalability. With this feature, the same compressed bitstream can be directly decoded by different receivers at several resolutions, depending on their computational and bandwith capabilities.
This paper presents a novel imagecoding scheme based on separate coding of region and residue sources. In a subband image coding scheme, quantization errors in each subimage spread over the reconstructed image and re...
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This paper presents a novel imagecoding scheme based on separate coding of region and residue sources. In a subband image coding scheme, quantization errors in each subimage spread over the reconstructed image and result in a blurring or a boundary artifact. To obtain high compression ratio without considerable degradation, an input image, in our scheme, is separated into region and residue sources which are coded using different coding schemes. The region source is coded by adaptive arithmetic coder. The residue source is coded using multiresolution subimages generated by applying a subband filter. Each block in the subimages is predicted by an affine transformation of blocks in lower resolution subimages. Experimental results show that a high coding efficiency is achieved using the proposed scheme, especially in terms of the subjective visual quality and PSNR at low bit-rate compression.
In this paper, generalized linear phase lapped orthogonal transforms with unequal length basis functions (GULLOTs) are considered. The length of each basis of the proposed GULLOT can be different from each other, wher...
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In this paper, generalized linear phase lapped orthogonal transforms with unequal length basis functions (GULLOTs) are considered. The length of each basis of the proposed GULLOT can be different from each other, whereas all the bases of the conventional GenLOT are of equal length. Tn general, for imagecoding application, the long basis for a low-frequency band and the short basis for a high-frequency one are desirable to reduce the blocking and the ringing artifact simultaneously. Therefore, the GULLOT is suitable especially for a subband image coding. In order to apply the GULLOT to a subband image coding, we also investigate the size-limited structure to process the finite length signal, which is important in practice. Finally, some design and imagecoding examples are shown to confirm the validity of the proposed GULLOT.
This paper presents a low-complexity wavelet transform that utilizes point-symmetric extension at the image the boundaries. The proposed approach is considered as an alternative to the well-known symmetric signal exte...
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This paper presents a low-complexity wavelet transform that utilizes point-symmetric extension at the image the boundaries. The proposed approach is considered as an alternative to the well-known symmetric signal extension in dealing with the boundary artifacts that manifest when tiles of images are lossy compressed. The new solution developed for odd-length filters preserves the perfect reconstruction property of the filter banks and deals efficiently with blocking artifacts without requiring any post processing technique or additional information from the neighboring tiles. It is shown that point-symmetric extension at the boundaries does not need to be applied explicitly, but instead the equivalent boundary filters can be derived. The lifting-based implementation of the filters provides a very simple way of changing filter parameters at the boundaries that suits both hardware and software platforms.
In this paper, the Lapped Orthogonal Transform (LOT) with unequal length basis function is considered. The proposed unequal length LOT (ULLOT) has both long basis of length 2M and short basis of length M, while the le...
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In this paper, the Lapped Orthogonal Transform (LOT) with unequal length basis function is considered. The proposed unequal length LOT (ULLOT) has both long basis of length 2M and short basis of length M, while the lengths of all bases of the conventional LOT are 2M. A new class of LOT can be constructed with some modifications of Malvar's Fast LOT. Therefore, the fast algorithm for the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) will surely facilitate the computation of the ULLOT. Although the computational complexity of the ULLOT is always lower than that of the LOT, there exist some cases where the coding gain of the ULLOT becomes slightly higher than that of the LOT. Its ability to reduce ringing artifacts is an attractive feature as well. The size-limited structure for the finite length signal is investigated and the ULLOTs are tested on imagecoding application. The simulation results confirm the validity of the proposed ULLOT.
The influence of the phase of conjugate quadrature filters (CQF's) on the performances of a subbandcoding scheme is analyzed. When the filter length is short, the phase characteristic has virtually no influence o...
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The influence of the phase of conjugate quadrature filters (CQF's) on the performances of a subbandcoding scheme is analyzed. When the filter length is short, the phase characteristic has virtually no influence on the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR)/bit rate results and on the performance of postprocessing algorithms such as edge detection.
subband image coding techniques have received considerable attention as a powerful source coding ones. These techniques provide good compression results, and also can be extended for progressive transmission and multi...
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(纸本)0819428361
subband image coding techniques have received considerable attention as a powerful source coding ones. These techniques provide good compression results, and also can be extended for progressive transmission and multiresolution analysis. In this paper, we propose a hybrid subband image coding scheme using DWT (discrete wavelet transform), DPCM(differential pulse code modulation), and ADPCM(adaptive DPCM). This scheme produces both simple, but significant, image compression and transmission coding.
The increasing demand for real-time applications requires the use of variable-rate quantizers having good performance in the low bit rate domain. In order to minimize the complexity of quantization, as well as maintai...
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The increasing demand for real-time applications requires the use of variable-rate quantizers having good performance in the low bit rate domain. In order to minimize the complexity of quantization, as well as maintaining a reasonably high PSNR ratio, we propose to use an entropy-coded lattice vector quantizer (ECLVQ), These quantizers have proven to outperform the well-known EZW algorithm's performance in terms of rate-distortion tradeoff. In this paper, we focus our attention on the modeling of the mean squared error (mse) distortion and the prefix code rate for ECLVQ. First, we generalize the distortion model of Jeong and Gibson on fixed-rate cubic quantizers to lattices under a high rate assumption. Second, we derive new rate models for ECLVQ, efficient at low bit rates without any high rate assumptions, Simulation results prove the precision of our models.
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