Image data compression methodologies using discrete wavelets

Jun Tian; Chih-Zen Chen; Chih-Chung Chen; Gunasekaran Seetharaman

doi:10.1117/12.235992

22 March 1996 Image data compression methodologies using discrete wavelets

Jun Tian, Chih-Zen Chen, Chih-Chung Chen, Gunasekaran Seetharaman

Proceedings Volume 2762, Wavelet Applications III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.235992
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1996, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

An image data compression system using discrete wavelets is described and implemented. The two dimensional discrete wavelet transform is computed via subband coding by repeating a three step procedure explained in this paper. The procedure essentially decomposes an image at some resolution and produces four new images which are characterized as low-low, low- high, high-low, and high-high spatial frequency components along the x and y directions. The first component is passed as the input for the next iteration; the second and third components were stored in memory for later processing; and, the fourth component is truncated and reset to zero for a simple codec design. In essence, the compression is accomplished by discarding roughly 25% of the wavelet coefficients at every iteration. The inverse wavelet transform has been applied in a similar fashion, by inserting zeros in place of the discarded values. The results are illustrated using the simplest wavelets called Haar(1910), which is known to be not optimal for image compression but is available in hardware and is inexpensive. The nature of the artifacts introduced by the truncation of high frequency coefficients of Haar transform is also discussed.

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Jun Tian, Chih-Zen Chen, Chih-Chung Chen, and Gunasekaran Seetharaman "Image data compression methodologies using discrete wavelets", Proc. SPIE 2762, Wavelet Applications III, (22 March 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.235992

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