A novel approach for near-lossless compression of Color Filtering Array (CFA) data in wireless endoscopy capsule is proposed in this paper. The compression method is based on pre-processing and vector quantization. Fi...A novel approach for near-lossless compression of Color Filtering Array (CFA) data in wireless endoscopy capsule is proposed in this paper. The compression method is based on pre-processing and vector quantization. First, the CFA raw data are low pass filtered and rearranged during pre-processing. Then, pairs of pixels are vector quantized into macros of 9 bits by applying block par-tition and index mapping in succession. These macros are entropy compressed by Joint Photographic Experts Group-Lossless Standard (JPEG-LS) finally. The complex step of codeword searching in Vector Quantization (VQ) is avoided by a predefined partition rule, which is suitable for hardware imple-mentation. By control of the pre-processor and VQ scheme, either high quality compression under un- filtered case or high ratio compression under filtered case can be realized, with the average Peak Sig-nal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) more than 43dB and 37dB respectively. Compared with the state-of-the-art method and the previously proposed method, our compression approach outperforms in compression performance as well as in flexibility.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60506007).
文摘A novel approach for near-lossless compression of Color Filtering Array (CFA) data in wireless endoscopy capsule is proposed in this paper. The compression method is based on pre-processing and vector quantization. First, the CFA raw data are low pass filtered and rearranged during pre-processing. Then, pairs of pixels are vector quantized into macros of 9 bits by applying block par-tition and index mapping in succession. These macros are entropy compressed by Joint Photographic Experts Group-Lossless Standard (JPEG-LS) finally. The complex step of codeword searching in Vector Quantization (VQ) is avoided by a predefined partition rule, which is suitable for hardware imple-mentation. By control of the pre-processor and VQ scheme, either high quality compression under un- filtered case or high ratio compression under filtered case can be realized, with the average Peak Sig-nal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) more than 43dB and 37dB respectively. Compared with the state-of-the-art method and the previously proposed method, our compression approach outperforms in compression performance as well as in flexibility.