An efficient adaptive arithmetic coding image compression technology

This paper proposes an efficient lossless image compression scheme for still images based on an adaptive arithmetic coding compression algorithm. The algorithm increases the image coding compression rate and ensures the quality of the decoded image combined with the adaptive probability model and predictive coding. The use of adaptive models for each encoded image block dynamically estimates the probability of the relevant image block. The decoded image block can accurately recover the encoded image according to the code book information. We adopt an adaptive arithmetic coding algorithm for image compression that greatly improves the image compression rate. The results show that it is an effective compression technology.

Medical Image Compression Using Wrapping Based Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform and Arithmetic Coding

Due to the development of CT (Computed Tomography), MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), PET (Positron Emission Tomography), EBCT (Electron Beam Computed Tomography), SMRI (Stereotactic Magnetic Resonance Imaging), etc. has enhanced the distinguishing rate and scanning rate of the imaging equipments. The diagnosis and the process of getting useful information from the image are got by processing the medical images using the wavelet technique. Wavelet transform has increased the compression rate. Increasing the compression performance by minimizing the amount of image data in the medical images is a critical task. Crucial medical information like diagnosing diseases and their treatments is obtained by modern radiology techniques. Medical Imaging (MI) process is used to acquire that information. For lossy and lossless image compression, several techniques were developed. Image edges have limitations in capturing them if we make use of the extension of 1-D wavelet transform. This is because wavelet transform cannot effectively transform straight line discontinuities, as well geographic lines in natural images cannot be reconstructed in a proper manner if 1-D transform is used. Differently oriented image textures are coded well using Curvelet Transform. The Curvelet Transform is suitable for compressing medical images, which has more curvy portions. This paper describes a method for compression of various medical images using Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform based on wrapping technique. After transformation, the coefficients are quantized using vector quantization and coded using arithmetic encoding technique. The proposed method is tested on various medical images and the result demonstrates significant improvement in performance parameters like Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Compression Ratio (CR).

Chaos-based encryption for fractal image coding

A chaos-based cryptosystem for fractal image coding is proposed. The Renyi chaotic map is employed to determine the order of processing the range blocks and to generate the keystream for masking the encoded sequence. Compared with the standard approach of fraetal image coding followed by the Advanced Encryption Standard, our scheme offers a higher sensitivity to both plaintext and ciphertext at a comparable operating efficiency. The keystream generated by the Renyi chaotic map passes the randomness tests set by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, and so the proposed scheme is sensitive to the key.

METHOD OF VECTOR QUANTIZATION CODING USING RECTANGULAR TRANSFORM FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION

First of all a simple and practical rectangular transform is given,and then thevector quantization technique which is rapidly developing recently is introduced.We combinethe rectangular transform with vector quantization technique for image data compression.Thecombination cuts down the dimensions of vector coding.The size of the codebook can reasonablybe reduced.This method can reduce the computation complexity and pick up the vector codingprocess.Experiments using image processing system show that this method is very effective inthe field of image data compression.

A New Method Which Combines Arithmetic Coding with RLE for Lossless Image Compression

This paper presents a new method of lossless image compression. An image is characterized by homogeneous parts. The bit planes, which are of high weight are characterized by sequences of 0 and 1 are successive encoded with RLE, whereas the other bit planes are encoded by the arithmetic coding (AC) (static or adaptive model). By combining an AC (adaptive or static) with the RLE, a high degree of adaptation and compression efficiency is achieved. The proposed method is compared to both static and adaptive model. Experimental results, based on a set of 12 gray-level images, demonstrate that the proposed scheme gives mean compression ratio that are higher those compared to the conventional arithmetic encoders.

An Adaptive Block-Based Fractal Image Coding Scheme

Based on Jacquin's work. this paper presents an adaptive block-based fractal image coding scheme. Firstly. masking functions are used to classify range blocks and weight the mean Square error (MSE) of images. Secondly, an adaptive block partition scheme is introduced by developing the quadtree partition method. Thirdly. a piecewise uniform quantization strategy is appled to quantize the luminance shifting. Finally. experiment results are shown and compared with what reported by Jacquin and Lu to verify the validity of the methods addressed by the authors.

Novel region-based image compression method based on spiking cortical model

To get the high compression ratio as well as the high-quality reconstructed image, an effective image compression scheme named irregular segmentation region coding based on spiking cortical model（ISRCS） is presented. This scheme is region-based and mainly focuses on two issues. Firstly, an appropriate segmentation algorithm is developed to partition an image into some irregular regions and tidy contours, where the crucial regions corresponding to objects are retained and a lot of tiny parts are eliminated. The irregular regions and contours are coded using different methods respectively in the next step. The other issue is the coding method of contours where an efficient and novel chain code is employed. This scheme tries to find a compromise between the quality of reconstructed images and the compression ratio. Some principles and experiments are conducted and the results show its higher performance compared with other compression technologies, in terms of higher quality of reconstructed images, higher compression ratio and less time consuming.

A New Approach Based on Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Tree Algorithm for Image Compression

In this paper, the authors propose a new approach to image compression based on the principle of Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Tree algorithm （SPIHT）. Our approach, the modified SPIHT （MSPIHT）, distributes entropy differently than SPIHT and also optimizes the coding. This approach can produce results that are a significant improvement on the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio （PSNR） and compression ratio obtained by SPIHT algorithm, without affecting the computing time. These results are also comparable with those obtained using the Embedded Zerotree Wavelet （EZW） and Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 （JPG2） algorithms.

An efficient BTC image compression algorithm with visual patterns

Discusses block truncation coding (BTC) a simple and fast image compression technique suitable for real time image transmission with high channel error resisting capability and good reconstructed image quality, and its main drawback of high bit rate of 2 bits/pixel for a 256 gray image for the purpose of reducing the bit rate, and introduces a simple look up table method for coding the higher mean and the lower mean of a block, and a set of 24 visual patterns used to encode 4×4 bit plane of the high detail block and proposes a new algorithm, when needs only 19 bits to encode 4×4 high detail block and 12 bits to encode the 4×4 low detail block.

AN EFFICIENT BTC IMAGE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM

Block truncation coding (BTC) is a simple and fast image compression technique suitable for real time image transmission, and it has high channel error resisting capability and good reconstructed image quality. The main shortcoming of the original BTC algorithm is the high bit rate (normally 2 bits/pixel). In order to reduce the bit rate, an efficient BTC image compression algorithm was presented in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, a simple look up table method is presented for coding the higher mean and the lower mean of a block without any extra distortion, and a prediction technique is introduced to reduce the number of bits used to code the bit plane with some extra distortion. The test results prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

An image compression method for space multispectral time delay and integration charge coupled device camera

Multispectral time delay and integration charge coupled device （TDICCD） image compression requires a low- complexity encoder because it is usually completed on board where the energy and memory are limited. The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems （CCSDS） has proposed an image data compression （CCSDS-IDC） algorithm which is so far most widely implemented in hardware. However, it cannot reduce spectral redundancy in mukispectral images. In this paper, we propose a low-complexity improved CCSDS-IDC （ICCSDS-IDC）-based distributed source coding （DSC） scheme for multispectral TDICCD image consisting of a few bands. Our scheme is based on an ICCSDS-IDC approach that uses a bit plane extractor to parse the differences in the original image and its wavelet transformed coefficient. The output of bit plane extractor will be encoded by a first order entropy coder. Low-density parity-check-based Slepian-Wolf （SW） coder is adopted to implement the DSC strategy. Experimental results on space multispectral TDICCD images show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the CCSDS-IDC-based coder in each band.

ADCTVQ: A New Method for Image Coding and Compressing

This paper presents a new method for image coding and compressing-ADCTVQ(Adptive Discrete Cosine Transform Vector Quantization). In this method, DCT conforms to visual properties and has an encoding ability which is inferior only to the best transform KLT. Its vector quantization can maintain the minimum quantization distortions and greatly increase the compression ratio. In order to improve compression efficiency, an adaptive strategy of selecting reserved region patterns is applied to preserving the high energy at the same compression ratio. The experiment results show that they are satisfactory at the compression ration ratio if greater than 20.

Edge Oriented Compression Coding on Image Sequence

An edge oriented image sequence coding scheme is presented. On the basis of edge detecting, an image could be divided into the sensitized region and the smooth region. In this scheme, the architecture of sensitized region is approximated with linear type of segments. Then a rectangle belt is constructed for each segment. Finally, the gray value distribution in the region is fitted by normal forms polynomials. The model matching and motion analysis are also based on the architecture of sensitized region. For the smooth region we use the run length scanning and linear approximating. By means of normal forms polynomial fitting and motion prediction by matching, the images are compressed. It is shown through the simulations that the subjective quality of reconstructed picture is excellent at 0.0075 bit per pel.

Second Generation Wavelet Applied to Lossless Compression Coding of Image

In this paper, the second generation wavelet transform is applied to image lossless coding, according to its characteristic of reversible integer wavelet transform. The second generation wavelet transform can provide higher compression ratio than Huffman coding while it reconstructs image without loss compared with the first generation wavelet transform. The experimental results show that the se cond generation wavelet transform can obtain excellent performance in medical image compression coding.

Image compression algorithm of floral canopy based on mask hybrid coding for ROI

To achieve high-quality image compression of a floral canopy,a region of interest(ROI)mask of the wavelet domain was generated through the automatic identification of the canopy ROI and lifting the bit-plane of the ROI to obtain priority of coding for the ROI-set partitioning in hierarchical trees(ROI-SPIHT)coding.The embedded zerotree wavelet(EZW)coding was conducted for the background(BG)region of the image and a relatively more low-frequency wavelet coefficient was obtained using a relatively small amount of coding.Through the weighing factor r of the ROI coding amount,the proportion of the ROI and BG coding amount was dynamically adjusted to generate embedded,truncatable bit streams.Despite the location of truncation,the image information and ROI mask information required by the decoder can be guaranteed to achieve high-quality compression and reconstruction of the image ROI.The results indicated that under the same bit rate,the larger the r value is,the larger the peak-signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)for the ROI reconstructed image and the smaller the PSNR for the BG reconstructed image.In the range of 0.07-1.09 bpp,the PSNR of the ROI reconstructed image was 42.65%higher on average than that of the BG reconstructed image,43.95%higher on average than that of the composite image of the ROI and BG(ALL),and 16.84%higher on average than that of the standard SPIHT reconstructed image.Additionally,the mean square error of the quality evaluation index and similarity for the ROI reconstructed image were both better than those for the BG,ALL,and standard SPIHT reconstructed images.The texture distortion of the ALL image was smaller than that of the SPIHT reconstructed image,indicating that the image compression algorithm based on the mask hybrid coding for ROI(ROI-MHC)is capable of improving the reconstruction quality of an ROI image.When the weighing factor r is a fixed value,as the proportion of ROI(a)increases,the quality of ROI image reconstruction gradually decreases.Therefore,upon the application of the ROI-MHC image compression algorithm,high-quality reconstruction of the ROI image can be achieved through dynamically configuring r according to a.Under the same bit rate,the quality of the ROI-MHC image compression is higher than that of current compression algorithms of same classes and offers promising application opportunities.

Screen image sequence compression method utilizing adaptive block size coding and hierarchical GOP structure

To compress screen image sequence in real-time remote and interactive applications,a novel compression method is proposed.The proposed method is named as CABHG.CABHG employs hybrid coding schemes that consist of intra-frame and inter-frame coding modes.The intra-frame coding is a rate-distortion optimized adaptive block size that can be also used for the compression of a single screen image.The inter-frame coding utilizes hierarchical group of pictures(GOP) structure to improve system performance during random accesses and fast-backward scans.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CABHG method has approximately 47%-48% higher compression ratio and 46%-53% lower CPU utilization than professional screen image sequence codecs such as TechSmith Ensharpen codec and Sorenson 3 codec.Compared with general video codecs such as H.264 codec,XviD MPEG-4 codec and Apple's Animation codec,CABHG also shows 87%-88% higher compression ratio and 64%-81% lower CPU utilization than these general video codecs.

Complete Focal Plane Compression Based on CMOS Image Sensor Using Predictive Coding

In this paper, a CMOS image sensor(CIS) is proposed, which can accomplish both decorrelation and entropy coding of image compression directly on the focal plane. The design is based on predictive coding for image decorrelation. The predictions are performed in analog domain by 2×2 pixel units. Both the prediction residuals and original pixel values are quantized and encoded in parallel. Since the residuals have a peak distribution around zero,the output codewords can be replaced by the valid part of the residuals' binary mode. The compressed bit stream is accessible directly at the output of CIS without extra disposition. Simulation results show that the proposed approach achieves a compression rate of 2. 2 and PSNR of 51 on different test images.

Lossy-to-Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Image Using the 3D Set Partitioned Embedded ZeroBlock Coding Algorithm

In this paper, we propose a three-dimensional Set Partitioned Embedded ZeroBlock Coding (3D SPEZBC) lossy-to-lossless compression algorithm for hyperspectral image which is an improved three-dimensional Embedded ZeroBlock Coding (3D EZBC) algorithm. The algorithm adopts the 3D integer wavelet packet transform proposed by Xiong et al. to decorrelate, the set-based partitioning zeroblock coding to process bitplane coding and the con-text-based adaptive arithmetic coding for further entropy coding. The theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that 3D SPEZBC not only provides the same excellent compression performances as 3D EZBC, but also reduces the memory requirement compared with 3D EZBC. For achieving good coding performance, the diverse wave-let filters and unitary scaling factors are compared and evaluated, and the best choices were given. In comparison with several state-of-the-art wavelet coding algorithms, the proposed algorithm provides better compression performance and unsupervised classification accuracy.

Low complexity DCT-based distributed source coding with Gray code for hyperspectral images

To compress hyperspectral images, a low complexity discrete cosine transform （DCT）-based distributed source coding （DSC） scheme with Gray code is proposed. Unlike most of the existing DSC schemes, which utilize transform in spatial domain, the proposed algorithm applies transform in spectral domain. Set-partitioning-based approach is applied to reorganize DCT coefficients into waveletlike tree structure and extract the sign, refinement, and significance bitplanes. The extracted refinement bits are Gray encoded. Because of the dependency along the line dimension of hyperspectral images, low density paritycheck-（LDPC）-based Slepian-Wolf coder is adopted to implement the DSC strategy. Experimental results on airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer （AVIRIS） dataset show that the proposed paradigm achieves up to 6 dB improvement over DSC-based coders which apply transform in spatial domain, with significantly reduced computational complexity and memory storage.

Adaptive interference hyperspectral image compression with spectrum distortion control

As one of the next generation imaging spectrometers, interferential spectrometer has been paid much attention. With traditional spectrum compression methods, the hyperspectral images generated by interferential spectrometer can only be protected with better visual quality in spatial domain, but its optical applications in Fourier domain are often ignored. So the relation between the distortion in Fourier domain and the compression in spatial domain is analyzed in this letter. Based on this analysis, a novel coding scheme is proposed, which can compress data in spatial domain while reducing the distortion in Fourier domain. The bitstream of set partitioning in hierarchical trees （SPIHT） is truncated by adaptively lifting the rate-distortion slopes of zerotrees according to the priorities of optical path difference （OPD） based on rate-distortion optimization theory. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can achieve better performance in Fourier domain while maintaining the image quality in spatial domain.