Subband and Wavelet Still Image Coding for Improved Image Quality PDF Download

Author: Matthew Anthony Mow
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Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Pankaj N. Topiwala
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306470438
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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An exciting new development has taken place in the digital era that has captured the imagination and talent of researchers around the globe - wavelet image compression. This technology has deep roots in theories of vision, and promises performance improvements over all other compression methods, such as those based on Fourier transforms, vectors quantizers, fractals, neural nets, and many others. It is this revolutionary new technology that is presented in Wavelet Image and Video Compression, in a form that is accessible to the largest audience possible. Wavelet Image and Video Compression is divided into four parts. Part I, Background Material, introduces the basic mathematical structures that underly image compression algorithms with the intention of providing an easy introduction to the mathematical concepts that are prerequisites for the remainder of the book. It explains such topics as change of bases, scalar and vector quantization, bit allocation and rate-distortion theory, entropy coding, the discrete-cosine transform, wavelet filters and other related topics. Part II, Still Image Coding, presents a spectrum of wavelet still image coding techniques. Part III, Special Topics in Still Image Coding, provides a variety of example coding schemes with a special flavor in either approach or application domain. Part IV, Video Coding, examines wavelet and pyramidal coding techniques for video data. Wavelet Image and Video Compression serves as an excellent reference and may be used as a text for advanced courses covering the subject.

Author: Jelena Kovacevic
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780130970800
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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A central goal of signal processing is to describe real-time signals, be it for computation, compression, or understanding. This book presents a unified view of wavelets and subband coding with a signal processing perspective. Covers the discrete-time case, or filter banks; development of wavelets; continuous wavelet and local Fourier transforms; efficient algorithms for filter banks and wavelet computations; and signal compression. *provides broad coverage of theory and applications and a different perspective based on signal processing. *gives framework for applications in speech, audio, image and video compression as used in multimedia. *includes sufficient background material so that people without signal processing knowledge will find it useful.

Author: John W. Woods
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475721196
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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This book concerns a new method of image data compression which weil may supplant the well-established block-transfonn methods that have been state-of-the art for the last 15 years. Subband image coding or SBC was first perfonned as such in 1985, and as the results became known at first through conference proceedings, and later through journal papers, the research community became excited about both the theoretical and practical aspects of this new approach. This excitement is continuing today, with many major research laboratories and research universities around the world investigating the subband approach to coding of color images, high resolution images, video- including video conferencing and advanced tele vision, and the medical application of picture archiving systems. Much of the fruits of this work is summarized in the eight chapters of this book which were written by leading practitioners in this field. The subband approach to image coding starts by passing the image through a two- or three-dimensional filter bank. The two-dimensional (2-D) case usually is hierarchical' consisting of two stages of four filters each. Thus the original image is split into 16 subband images, with each one decimated or subsampled by 4x4, resulting in a data conservation. The individual channel data is then quantized ·for digital transmission. In an attractive variation an octave-like approach, herein tenned subband pyramid, is taken for the decomposition resulting in a total of just eleven subbands.

Author: William Pearlman
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN: 1627051325
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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This book explains the stages necessary to create a wavelet compression system for images and describes state-of-the-art systems used in image compression standards and current research. It starts with a high level discussion of the properties of the wavelet transform, especially the decomposition into multi-resolution subbands. It continues with an exposition of the null-zone, uniform quantization used in most subband coding systems and the optimal allocation of bitrate to the different subbands. Then the image compression systems of the FBI Fingerprint Compression Standard and the JPEG2000 Standard are described in detail. Following that, the set partitioning coders SPECK and SPIHT, and EZW are explained in detail and compared via a fictitious wavelet transform in actions and number of bits coded in a single pass in the top bit plane. The presentation teaches that, besides producing efficient compression, these coding systems, except for the FBI Standard, are capable of writing bit streams that have attributes of rate scalability, resolution scalability, and random access decoding. Many diagrams and tables accompany the text to aid understanding. The book is generous in pointing out references and resources to help the reader who wishes to expand his knowledge, know the origins of the methods, or find resources for running the various algorithms or building his own coding system. Table of Contents: Introduction / Characteristics of the Wavelet Transform / Generic Wavelet-based Coding Systems / The FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Standard / Set Partition Embedded Block (SPECK) Coding / Tree-based Wavelet Transform Coding Systems / Rate Control for Embedded Block Coders / Conclusion

Author: Lowell LeRoy Winger
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Efficient representation of digital video signals is key to many products and applications that will soon be extensively deployed. The scope of this thesis is the core technology for conventional compression of video: motion estimation, temporal compensation and prediction, spatial transformation, quantization, and entropy coding. Still-image compression techniques are a subset of the tools required for video compression. Although current still-image compression standards employ block-transform coding, subband and wavelet methods are now recognized as superior. A new family of biorthogonal 'nearly'-coiflet filters is introduced that possess near-maximal vanishing moments and smoothness (regularity). The design procedure for this family enables time-frequency footprints with for good image-compression performance. Medium-length filters enable superior reproduction of the high-frequency details that are key for video interframe coding. Although often examined independently, quantization, bit allocation and entropy coding may be improved through joint consideration. The performance bounds of Stack-Run coding, a computationally advantageous algorithm for quantization and entropy coding, are examined through the introduction of improved quantizers and the exploitation of two-dimensional spatial redundancy. New space-frequency quantization algorithms enable the relative advantage of joint quantization and entropy coding to be explored. The primary source of redundancy in video is temporal. Compression, the removal of redundancy, is accomplished through the techniques of motion estimation and compensation. This thesis offers two contributions to the temporal processing of video. Although wavelet coding is preferred for lossy image compression, the lack of a block-based intra-block/inter-block switching mechanism prevents efficient coding of video interframes. Space-Frequency block matching is suggested to compensate. Space-Frequency block matching provides a new capability for frequency-adaptive motion-compensated prediction that proves advantageous not only for wavelet interframes, but also for conventional block-transform coding of interframes. Despite success with spatial coding, transform and subband coding are poorly suited to application in the temporal domain. Spatial adaptation that permits both temporal-subband coding and motion-compensated prediction (TSB-MCP) within a single frame spans the gap between the two methods. The hybrid permits coding gain to be sacrificed to increase temporal scalability. A fundamental advantage of the new structure over 'closed-loop' MCP is the simplicity of optimal bit allocation in the 'open-loop'.

Author: William A. Pearlman
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
ISBN: 1601981805
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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Describes various wavelet image coding systems that use set partitioning primarily, such as SBHP (Subband Block Hierarchical Partitioning), SPIHT, and EZBC (Embedded Zero-Block Coder).

Author: M. Barlaud
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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The rapid advancements in image communication technologies are documented in the book series, Advances in Image Communication. Each publication provides an in-depth exploration of an intrinsic element of the multi-disciplinary field and together they form a comprehensive overview of the whole. This volume, the fifth in the series, examines the definition, study and use of the wavelet transform in communications for two-dimensional (2-D) digital signals. The transform is used for signal reorganization before compression and the trade-off between these two steps and the whole compression process is discussed. The five chapters specifically present the theory of wavelets applied to images, then applications of compression of still images and sequences. Chapter 1 introduces biorthogonal bases of compactly supported wavelets: this generalization of orthonormal wavelet theory allows the use of linear phase filters. A non rectangular wavelet representation of 2-D signals is developed in the second chapter: the properties usually used with wavelets, phase, linearity, and regularity are discussed. Chapter 3 is composed of three parts: a description of commonly used biorthogonal wavelets; a presentation of vector quantization algorithms; a consideration of lattice vector quantization followed by a discussion of the bit allocation procedure (with experimental results given). The fourth chapter deals with a region-based discrete wavelet transform for image coding. Chapter 5 investigates the transmission of image sequences: wavelet transforms and motion estimation are detailed in a multiconstraint approach of image sequence coding.

Author: Martin Vetterli
Publisher: Jelena Kovacevic
ISBN: 9781484886991
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Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Over the past few years, wavelets and their discrete-time cousins, filter banks, or subband coding, have been used in a variety of signal processing applications. From speech, image compression and computer visions, different disciplines have built up methods and tools now cast in the common framework of wavelets.Offering a unified view of this exciting field, Wavelets and Subband Coding develops the theory in both continuous and discrete time, and presents important applications.* Chapter 1 gives an overview of the topics covered and introduces the concept of multiresolution that is central in both theory and applications.* Chapter 2 is a review of fundamentals that makes the book self-contained, and it includes discussions of vector spaces, Fourier theory, signal processing, and time-frequency analysis.* Chapter 3 develops discrete-time linear expansions based on filter banks or subband coding. The two-channel case is studied in detail. The multichannel case as well as transmultiplexers are developed and design examples are given.* Chapter 4 develops wavelets, both with direct approaches and based on filter banks, and describes wavelet series and their computation, as well as the construction of modified local Fourier transforms.* Chapter 5 discusses continuous wavelet and local Fourier transforms that are used in signal analysis, as well as discretized versions leading to frames.* Chapter 6 addresses efficient algorithms for filter banks and wavelet computations. * Chapter 7 concludes the coverage by describing signal compression where filter banks and wavelets play important roles, including speech, audio, image, and video compression. Source coding using transforms, quantization, and entropy coding are studied in detail, and the usefulness of multiresolution coding in current applications is discussed.In addition, each chapter includes numerous illustrative examples and several appendices cover additional material. The book includes about a hundred homework problems, and contains 130 illustrations and photographs.

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Image coding is studied, with the work consisting of two distinct parts. Each part focuses on different coding paradigm. The first part of the research examines subband coding of images. An optimization-based method for the design of high-performance separable filter banks for image coding is proposed. This method yields linear-phase perfect-reconstruction systems with high coding gain, good frequency selectivity, and certain prescribed vanishing-moment properties. Several filter banks designed with the proposed method are presented and shown to work extremely well for image coding, outperforming the well-known 9/7 filter bank (from the JPEG-2000 standard) in most cases. Several families of perfect reconstruction filter banks exist, where the filter banks in each family have some common structural properties. New filter banks in each family are designed with the proposed method. Experimental results show that these new filter banks outperform previously known filter banks from the same family. The second part of the research explores normal meshes as a tool for image coding, with a particular interest in the normal-mesh-based image coder of Jansen, Baraniuk, and Lavu. Three modifications to this coder are proposed, namely, the use of a data-dependent base mesh, an alternative representation for normal/vertical offsets, and a different scan-conversion scheme based on bicubic interpolation. Experimental results show that our proposed changes lead to improved coding performance in terms of both objective and subjective image quality measures.