Low bit rates image compression via adaptive block downsampling and super resolution

Honggang Chen; Xiaohai He; Minglang Ma; Linbo Qing; Qizhi Teng

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.25.1.013004

7 January 2016 Low bit rates image compression via adaptive block downsampling and super resolution

Honggang Chen, Xiaohai He, Minglang Ma, Linbo Qing, Qizhi Teng

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 013004 (January 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.25.1.013004

Abstract

A low bit rates image compression framework based on adaptive block downsampling and super resolution (SR) was presented. At the encoder side, the downsampling mode and quantization mode of each 16 × 16 macroblock are determined adaptively using the ratio distortion optimization method, then the downsampled macroblocks are compressed by the standard JPEG. At the decoder side, the sparse representation-based SR algorithm is applied to recover full resolution macroblocks from decoded blocks. The experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms the standard JPEG and the state-of-the-art downsampling-based compression methods in terms of both subjective and objective comparisons. Specifically, the peak signal-to-noise ratio gain of the proposed framework over JPEG reaches up to 2 to 4 dB at low bit rates, and the critical bit rate to JPEG is raised to about 2.3 bits per pixel. Moreover, the proposed framework can be extended to other block-based compression schemes.

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Honggang Chen, Xiaohai He, Minglang Ma, Linbo Qing, and Qizhi Teng "Low bit rates image compression via adaptive block downsampling and super resolution," Journal of Electronic Imaging 25(1), 013004 (7 January 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.25.1.013004

Published: 7 January 2016

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