Wavelet-based fixed and embedded L-infinite-constrained image coding

Alin Alecu; Adrian Munteanu; Peter Schelkens; Jan P.H. Cornelis; Steven Dewitte

doi:10.1117/1.1581731

1 July 2003 Wavelet-based fixed and embedded L-infinite-constrained image coding

Alin Alecu, Adrian Munteanu, Peter Schelkens, Jan P.H. Cornelis, Steven Dewitte

Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 12, Issue 3, (July 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1581731

∞A new wavelet-based L∞-constrained fixed and embedded coding technique is proposed. The embedded bit stream can be truncated for any desired distortion bound at a corresponding bit rate, so that the target upper bound on the elements of the reconstruction error signal is guaranteed. The original image can also be coded up to a fixed a priori user-defined distortion bound, ranging up to lossless coding. A lifting-based wavelet decorrelating transform is employed on the original image, and exact relations are established between spatial and wavelet domain distortions. The wavelet coefficients are quantized by symmetric uniform quantizers for fixed-distortion coding and by families of embedded uniform deadzone scalar quantizers for embedded coding. The quantized coefficients are finally losslessly encoded using a quadtree-based coding algorithm. Any floating-point lifting-based wavelet transform can be used, and a few of the popular wavelet transforms included in the JPEG2000 verification model are worked out as examples. We compare other L∞-constrained coding schemes and show that our proposed coder offers in addition a fully embedded L∞-oriented bit stream. We illustrate also that the proposed coder retains the same capabilities as the state-of-the-art embedded wavelet-based codecs, while providing superior compression results and embeddedness with respect to the L distortion measure.

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Alin Alecu, Adrian Munteanu, Peter Schelkens, Jan P.H. Cornelis, and Steven Dewitte "Wavelet-based fixed and embedded L-infinite-constrained image coding," Journal of Electronic Imaging 12(3), (1 July 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1581731

Published: 1 July 2003

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