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21 April 1995 Two-pass side-match finite-state vector quantization
Ruey-Feng Chang, Wen-Jia Kuo
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Proceedings Volume 2501, Visual Communications and Image Processing '95; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206775
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing '95, 1995, Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract
Among the image coding techniques, vector quantization (VQ) has been considered to be an effective method for coding images at low bit rate. Side-match finite-state vector quantizer (SMVQ) exploits the correlations between the neighboring blocks (vectors) to avoid large gray level transition across block boundaries. In this paper, an improved SMVQ technique named two-pass side-match finite-state vector quantization (TPSMVQ) has been proposed. In TPSMVQ, the size of state codebook in the first pass is decided by the variances of neighboring blocks. In the second pass, we will improve the blocks encoded in the first pass whose variances are greater than a threshold. Moreover, not only the left and upper blocks but also the down and right blocks are used for constructing the state codebook. In our experiment results, the improvement of second pass is up to 1.5 dB in PSNR over the fist pass. In comparison to ordinary SMVQ, the improvement is upt to 1.54 dB at nearly the same bit rate.
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Ruey-Feng Chang and Wen-Jia Kuo "Two-pass side-match finite-state vector quantization", Proc. SPIE 2501, Visual Communications and Image Processing '95, (21 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206775
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KEYWORDS
Computer programming

Quantization

Image compression

Image quality

Distortion

Image processing

Computer science

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