Efficient Quadtree based Fractal Image Coding Scheme in Wavelet Transform Domain *

This paper presents an efficient quadtree based fractal image coding scheme in wavelet transform domain based on the wavelet based theory of fractal image compression introduced by Davis. In the scheme, zerotrees of wavelet coefficients are used to reduce the number of domain blocks, which leads to lower bit cost required to represent the location information of fractal coding, and overall entropy constrained optimization is performed for the decision trees as well as for the sets of scalar quantizers and self quantizers of wavelet subtrees. Experiment results show that at the low bit rates, the proposed scheme gives about 1 dB improvement in PSNR over the reported results.

Multiple description scalable video coding based on 3D lifted wavelet transform

In this work, a new method to deal with the unconnected pixels in motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) is presented, which is designed to improve the performance of 3D lifted wavelet coding. Furthermore, multiple description scalable coding (MDSC) is investigated, and novel MDSC schemes based on 3D wavelet coding are proposed, using the lifting imple- mentation of temporal filtering. The proposed MDSC schemes can avoid the mismatch problem in multiple description video coding, and have high scalability and robustness of video transmission. Experimental results showed that the proposed schemes are feasible and adequately effective.

Algorithm of Adaptive Bit Allocation Wavelet Transform Audio Coding

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Single Channel Speech Enhancement by De-noising Using Stationary Wavelet Transform

A method of single channel speech enhancement is proposed by de-noising using stationary wavelet transform. The approach developed herein processes multi-resolution wavelet coefficients individually and then recovery signal is reconstructed. The time invariant characteristics of stationary wavelet transform is particularly useful in speech de-noising. Experimental results show that the proposed speech enhancement by de-noising algorithm is possible to achieve an excellent balance between suppresses noise effectively and preserves as many target characteristics of original signal as possible. This de-noising algorithm offers a superior performance to speech signal noise suppress.

Image Coding Using Wavelet Transform and EntropyConstrained Vector Quantization with Quadtree Structure Vectors

This paper presents a new wavelet transform image coding method. On the basis of a hierarchical wavelet decomposition of images, entropy constrained vector quantization is employed to encode the wavelet coefficients at all the high frequency bands with

Code acquisition method based on wavelet transform filtering

In order to improve the acquisition probability of satellite navigation signals, this paper proposes a novel code acquisition method based on wavelet transform filtering. Firstly, the signal vector based on the signal passing through a set of partial matched filters （PMFs） is built. Then, wavelet domain filtering is performed on the signal vector value. Since the correlation signal is low in frequency and narrow in bandwidth, the noise out-of-band can be filtered out and the most of the useful signal energy is retained. Thus this process greatly improves the signal to noise ratio （SNR）. Finally, the detection variable when the filtered signal goes through the combination process is constructed and the detection based on signal energy is made. Moreover, for the better retaining useful signal energy, the rule of selection of wavelet function has been made. Simulation results show the proposed method has a better detection performance than the normal code acquisition methods under the same false alarm probability.

A New Shape-Coding Algorithm by Using Wavelet Transform

In this paper, we propose a new shape-coding algorithm called wavelet-based shape coding (WBSC). Performing wavelet transform on the orientation of original planar curve gives the corners called corner-1 points and end of arcs that belong to the original curve. Each arc is represented by a broken line and the corners called corner-2 points of the broken line are extracted. A polygonal approximation of a contour is an ordered list of corner-1 points, ends of arcs and corner-2 points which are extracted by using the above algorithm. All of the points are called polygonal vertices which will be compressed by our adaptive arithmetic encoding. Experimental results show that our method reduces code bits by about 26% compared with the context-based arithmetic encoding (CAE) of MPEG-4, and the subjective quality of the reconstructed shape is better than that of CAE at the same Dn.

ADAPTIVE MULTIRESOLUTION SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM BASED ON WAVELET TRANSFORM

In this paper, an adaptive multiresolution speech enhancement algorithm based on wavelet transform is put forward. It can make adaptive filtering to noise speech both at scales and among scales. So that the noise parts during the frequency intervals which decrease hearing quality mostly are reduced efficiently. Both the SNR and subject hearing quality of denoised speech are high and good.

AN ALGORITHM FOR CODING VIDEO SIGNAL BASED ON 3-D WAVELET TRANSFORMATION

This paper presents an algorithm for coding video signal based on 3-D wavelet transformation. When the frame order t of a video signal is replaced by order 2, the video signal can be looked as a block in 3-D space. After splitting the block into smaller sub-blocks, imitate the method of 2-D wavelet transformation for images, we can transform the sub-blocks with 3-D wavelet. Most of video signal energy is in the decomposed low-frequency sub-bands. These sub-bands affect the visual quality of the video signal most. Quantizing different sub-bands with different precision and then entropy encoding each sub-band, we can eliminate inter- and intra-frame redundancy of the video signal and compress data. Our simulation experiments show that this algorithm can achieve very good result.

Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding Based on Wavelet Transform

Two video coding schemes based on wavelet transform achieving very low bit rate are presented in this paper. The first is a hybrid motion compensated wavelet transform(MC WT)system which behaves better at very low bit rates than the block DCT residual coder. The second is a new efficient coding system based on a simple frame differencing wavelet transform(FD WT)which performs well in both PSNR and visual quality with substantially reduced complexity.

3-D Wavelet Transform for Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding

A new improved Goh's 3 D wavelet transform(WT) coding scheme is presented in this paper. The new scheme has great advantages including a simple code structure, low computation cost and good performance in PSNR, compression ratios and visual quality of reconstructions, when compared to the other existing 3 D WT coding methods and the 2 D WT based coding methods. The new 3 D WT coding scheme is suitable for very low bit rate video coding.

Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding Using Motion Compensated 3 D Wavelet Transform

A new motion compensated 3 D wavelet transform (MC 3DWT) video coding scheme is presented in this paper. The new coding scheme has a good performance in average PSNR, compression ratio and visual quality of reconstructions compared with the existing 3 D wavelet transform (3DWT) coding methods and motion compensated 2 D wavelet transform (MC WT) coding method. The new MC 3DWT coding scheme is suitable for very low bit rate video coding.

REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CODING METHOD COMBINING WAVELET TRANSFORM WITH CLASSIFIED VECTOR QUANTIZATION

A new remote sensing image coding scheme based on the wavelet transform and classified vector quantization (CVQ) is proposed. The original image is first decomposed into a hierarchy of 3 layers including 10 subimages by DWT. The lowest frequency subimage is compressed by scalar quantization and ADPCM. The high frequency subimages are compressed by CVQ to utilize the similarity among different resolutions while improving the edge quality and reducing computational complexity. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme has a better performance than JPEG, and a PSNR of reconstructed image is 31～33 dB with a rate of 0.2 bpp.

Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding by Combining H.264/AVC Standard and 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform

In this paper, we propose a new method for very low bit-rate video coding that combines H.264/AVC standard and two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform. In this method, first a two dimensional wavelet transform is applied on each video frame independently to extract the low frequency components for each frame and then the low frequency parts of all frames are coded using H.264/AVC codec. On the other hand, the high frequency parts of the video frames are coded by Run Length Coding algorithm, after applying a threshold to neglect the low value coefficients. Experiments show that our proposed method can achieve better rate-distortion performance at very low bit-rate applications below 16 kbits/s compared to applying H.264/AVC standard directly to all frames. Applications of our proposed video coding technique include video telephony, video-conferencing, transmitting or receiving video over half-rate traffic channels of GSM networks.

VLSI Implementation of a Wavelet Image Coder

A modular architecture for two dimension (2 D) discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is designed.The image data can be wavelet transformed in real time,and the structure can be easily scaled up to higher levels of DWT.A fast zerotree image coding (FZIC) algorithm is proposed by using a simple sequential scan order and two flag maps.The VLSI structure for FZIC is then presented.By combining 2 D DWT and FZIC,a wavelet image coder is finally designed.The coder is programmed,simulated,synthesized,and successfully verified by ALTERA CPLD.

AN EFFICIENT 3-DIMENSIONAL DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM ARCHITECTURE FOR VIDEO PROCESSING APPLICATION

This paper presents an optimized 3-D Discrete Wavelet Transform (3-DDWT) architecture. 1-DDWT employed for the design of 3-DDWT architecture uses reduced lifting scheme approach. Further the architecture is optimized by applying block enabling technique, scaling, and rounding of the filter coefficients. The proposed architecture uses biorthogonal (9/7) wavelet filter. The architecture is modeled using Verilog HDL, simulated using ModelSim, synthesized using Xilinx ISE and finally implemented on Virtex-5 FPGA. The proposed 3-DDWT architecture has slice register utilization of 5%, operating frequency of 396 MHz and a power consumption of 0.45 W.

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.

Lattice Vector Quantization Applied to Speech and Audio Coding

Lattice vector quantization （LVQ） has been used for real-time speech and audio coding systems. Compared with conventional vector quantization, LVQ has two main advantages： It has a simple and fast encoding process, and it significantly reduces the amount of memory required. Therefore, LVQ is suitable for use in low-complexity speech and audio coding. In this paper, we describe the basic concepts of LVQ and its advantages over conventional vector quantization. We also describe some LVQ techniques that have been used in speech and audio coding standards of international standards developing organizations （SDOs）.

VBR WAVELET VIDEO CODING AND ITS RATE CONTROL IN ATM NETWORKS

This paper presents a new video coding system based on wavelet transform and its rate control scheme over ATM networks. First, three dimensional wavelet transform is performed for the original image sequence, and an extension of set partitioning in hierarchical trees algorithm is employed to quantize the wavelet coefficients. Then, the output rate of the coder is controlled at group of frame scale, ensuring that it conforms to the parameters of a leaky bucket controller. Several leaky buckets with different sizes are discussed too. Simulation shows the efficiency of this codec and the effectiveness of the proposed rate control scheme.

Wavelet-Based Mixed-Resolution Coding Approach Incorporating with SPT for the Stereo Image

With the advances of display technology, three-dimensional(3-D) imaging systems are becoming increasingly popular. One way of stimulating 3-D perception is to use stereo pairs, a pair of images of the same scene acquired from different perspectives. Since there is an inherent redundancy between the images of a stereo pairs, data compression algorithms should be employed to represent stereo pairs efficiently. The proposed techniques generally use block-based disparity compensation. In order to get the higher compression ratio, this paper employs the wavelet-based mixed-resolution coding technique to incorporate with SPT-based disparity-compensation to compress the stereo image data. The mixed-resolution coding is a perceptually justified technique that is achieved by presenting one eye with a low-resolution image and the other with a high-resolution image. Psychophysical experiments show that the stereo image pairs with one high-resolution image and one low-resolution image provide almost the same stereo depth to that of a stereo image with two high-resolution images. By combining the mixed-resolution coding and SPT-based disparity-compensation techniques, one reference (left) high-resolution image can be compressed by a hierarchical wavelet transform followed by vector quantization and Huffman encoder. After two level wavelet decompositions, for the low-resolution right image and low-resolution left image, subspace projection technique using the fixed block size disparity compensation estimation is used. At the decoder, the low-resolution right subimage is estimated using the disparity from the low-resolution left subimage. A full-size reconstruction is obtained by upsampling a factor of 4 and reconstructing with the synthesis low pass filter. Finally, experimental results are presented, which show that our scheme achieves a PSNR gain (about 0.92dB) as compared to the current block-based disparity compensation coding techniques.