Image compression

In 1992, a joint committee between the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) known as the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) issued a standard that was approved in 1994 as ISO/IEC 10918-1 or ITU-T Recommendation T.81. This standard received the name of Information technology – Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images requirements and guidelines but it is commonly known as the JPEG standard.

This paper proposes a new quality improvement technique for fractal-based image compression techniques using diffusion equations. Fractal coding uses a contractive mapping scheme to represent an image. This process of contractive mapping causes artifacts and blocking effects in encoded images. This problem is severed when compression ratio is increased or there are high frequency regions in the image. Hence, to

In this paper, we have proposed a DWT-based image compression algorithm via a popular Distributed Arithmetic (DA) technique for image and video compression. It is applied to determine the wavelet coefficients and so that the number of arithmetic operations can be reduced. The compression rate is enhanced by introducing RW block. It blocks some of the coefficients obtained from the high pass filter to zero. Then Differential Pulse-Code Modulation (DPCM) and Huffman-encoding are applied to acquire the binary sequence of the image. The functional simulation and performance of each module is analyzed with gate requirement, area, power, compression rate, and computation time. The proposed compression approach offers good performance in power efficiency than the prior methods. Furthermore, Altera FPGA based hardware realization shows 32% reduction in dynamic power consumption when compared to the literature. KeywordImage compression, DWT, DA, DPCM, Huffman-coding. ________________________...

The wavelet based approach becoming most common for image compressions and de-noising. The level of decomposition during image compression may be optimized to retain use full energy contents. In this paper we are analyzing the effect of image compressions ...

The advancement of neural network methods and technologies is finding applications in many fields and disciplines of interest to the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. Rapidly reconfigurable sensors for real or near-real time signal or image processing can be used for multi-functional purposes such as image compression, target tracking, image fusion, edge detection, thresholding, pattern recognition, and atmospheric turbulence compensation to name a few. A neural network based smart sensor is described that can accomplish these tasks individually or in combination, in real-time or near real-time. As a computationally intensive example, the case of optical imaging through volume turbulence is addressed. For imaging systems in the visible and near infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum, the atmosphere is often the dominant factor in reducing the imaging system's resolution and image quality. The neural network approach described in this paper is shown to present a viable means for implementing turbulence compensation techniques for near-field and distributed turbulence scenarios. Representative high-speed neural network hardware is presented. Existing 2-D cellular neural network (CNN) hardware is capable of 3 trillion operations per second with peta-operations per second possible using current 3-D manufacturing processes. This hardware can be used for high-speed applications that require fast convolutions and de-convolutions. Existing 3-D artificial neural network technology is capable of peta-operations per second and can be used for fast array processing operations. Methods for optical imaging through distributed turbulence are discussed, simulation results are presented and computational and performance assessments are provided.

Image compression assumes a fundamental part in image handling field particularly when we need to send the image through a system. While imaging methods produce restrictive measures of information and preparing expansive information is computationally costly, information compression is crucial instrument for capacity and correspondence purposes. Numerous present compression strategies give a high compression rates however with impressive loss of image quality. This paper displays a methodology for image compression in spatial space utilizing an idea of data folding. data folding procedure has been connected on shading images with various size. A rowfolding is connected on the grayimage grid took after by a column folding iteratively till the image size diminishes to predefined esteem as indicated by the levels of folding and unfolding iteration) reconstruction the original image). While Data unfolding process connected in adores mode. Then using principal component analysis as a sta...

In this paper, we introduce a new transform for image processing, based on wavelets and the lifting paradigm. The lifting steps of a unidimensional wavelet are applied along a local orientation defined on a quincunx sampling grid. To maximize energy compaction, the orientation minimizing the prediction error is chosen adaptively. A fine-grained multiscale analysis is provided by iterating the decomposition on the low-frequency band. In the context of image compression, the multiresolution orientation map is coded using a quad tree. The rate allocation between the orientation map and wavelet coefficients is jointly optimized in a rate-distortion sense. For image denoising, a Markov model is used to extract the orientations from the noisy image. As long as the map is sufficiently homogeneous, interesting properties of the original wavelet are preserved such as regularity and orthogonality. Perfect reconstruction is ensured by the reversibility of the lifting scheme. The mutual information between the wavelet coefficients is studied and compared to the one observed with a separable wavelet transform. The rate-distortion performance of this new transform is evaluated for image coding using state-of-the-art subband coders. Its performance in a denoising application is also assessed against the performance obtained with other transforms or denoising methods.

We improve the mathematical contents of two previous papers using the axioms of the basic logic over [0,1] due to Hajek (1998). We make use of the theory of fuzzy relation equations for getting lossy compression and decompression of images. These are understood as two-argument fuzzy matrices of sizes m×n, compressed to two argument fuzzy matrices of sizes h × k, h ⩽ m and k ⩽ n. We are widely inspired from two papers of Nobuhara et al. (2000), but we propose several slight modifications illustrating an algorithm implemented in Java

Without image compression, images data would become much larger and consequently retrieval of images will be slow, thus telemedicine would in many situations be impractical. But it is natural to raise the question of how much an image can be compressed and still preserve sufficient information for a given clinical application. Evaluation of the diagnostic quality of compressed medical image still remains an important issue. In this paper, three different medical image modalities have been compressed and decompressed using DWT for different compression ratios and evaluated using objective and subjective testing. The quality of the reconstructed images has been measured using objective measures such as MSE, MAE, SNR, and PSNR. Ten observers have been involved to carry out the subjective evaluation. Based on the quality of the reconstructed images, the PSNR obtained has been between 35.3 dB to 58.0 dB for CT scan images, 38.6 dB to 55.0 dB for MRI and 34.5 dB to 51 MB for X-ray images. For radiology applications, the compression ratio of 30:1 is acceptable for CT images, and a compression ratio of 40:1 is acceptable for MRI, and compression ratio of 20:1 is acceptable for X-ray images.

Advances in digital medical imaging technologies, particularly magnetic resonance imaging and multi-detector CT (Computed Tomography), have resulted in substantial increase in the size of datasets, as a result of improvement in spatial and temporal resolution. In order to reduce the storage cost, diagnostic analysis cost and transmission time without significant reduction of the image quality, a state of the art image compression technique is required. We implemented a context-based and regions of interest (ROI) based approach to compress medical images in particular vascular images, where a high spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity is required in areas such as stenosis. The vascular image is divided into: the primary region of interest (PROI), the secondary region of interests (SROI) and the background. The PROI can be a stenosis of vessel and it is identified manually by the radiologist. The SROI is divided into other parts or regions among which the most important level is represented by vessels. The other levels are the other tissues or part of the body and the last level is the background region. The SROI is detected automatically by an in house 3D region growing algorithm. The PROI is considered as a seed for region growing. The proposed lossy-to-lossless region-based compression method is compressed these multiple ROIs at various degrees of interest and at higher precision (up to lossless) than other areas such as background. To demonstrate the result of this algorithm, this method is applied on peripheral arteries images (up to 2000 images) and the result have been compared with standard Jpeg2000 on 10 datasets. The size of compressed images can be reduced up to 67 percent.

As medical/biological imaging facilities move towards complete film-less imaging, compression plays a key role. Although lossy compression techniques yield high compression rates, the medical community has been reluctant to adopt these methods, largely for legal reasons, and has instead relied on lossless compression techniques that yield low compression rates. The true goal is to maximise compression while maintaining clinical relevance and balancing legal risk. This paper proposes a novel model-based compression technique that makes use of clinically relevant regions as defined by radiologists. Lossless compression is used in these clinically relevant regions, and lossy compression is used everywhere else.

Efficient softcopy access to future intelligence imagery archives will require novel applications of a wide range of imaging technologies for mass storage, communications, pixel management, and database access. Many of the necessary hardware technologies to realize massive all-softcopy archives are just now emerging. Examples include hierarchical mass storage systems capable of storing multipetabytes of imagery, high-speed communication networks with bandwidth scalable to gigabits/second, high-performance servers and clients with intelligent image caching strategies and embedded image compression, and powerful image and metadata query, browse, and access methods. We describe a testbed designed to investigate a multiterabyte “archive-to-the-desktop” all-softcopy environment for remote sensing imagery. This paper presents an overview of the IMACTS system including the functional architecture, data caching model, concept of operations, and software architecture. It focuses on the key i...

We describe design of a low-complexity lossless and near-lossless image compression system with random access, suitable for embedded memory compression applications. This system employs a block-based DPCM coder using variable-length encoding for the residual. As part of this design, we propose to use non-prefix (one-to-one) codes for coding of residuals, and show that they offer improvements in compression performance compared

For evaluating and improving image compression algorithms, there is a great need for an image fidelity metric that measures the perceptual difference between images. Image discrimination models, that model for human visual system, have been suggested as such metrics. The ...

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A new hierarchal structure of the self-organizing map (SOM) with dynamic growth is presented and applied to codebook design in vector quantization (VQ) and image compression. The tree-structured approach for codebook design is motivated for reducing the high computational efforts in the training and image coding phases in traditional VQ algorithms. The DHSOM has the ability to self determine the

Image compression is one of the key image processing techniques in signal processing and communication systems. Compression of images leads to reduction of storage space and reduces transmission bandwidth and hence also the cost. Advances in VLSI technology are rapidly changing the technological needs of common man. One of the major technological domains that are directly related to mankind is image compression. Neural networks can be used for image compression. Neural network architectures have proven to be more reliable, robust, and programmable and offer better performance when compared with classical techniques. In this paper the main focus is to development of new architectures for hardware implementation of neural network based image compression optimizing area, power and speed as specific to ASIC implementation, and comparison with FPGA. The proposed architecture design is realized on ASIC using Synopsys tools targeting 130nm TSMC library. The ASIC implementation for 16 input...

Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) are the common methods used in signal and image compression. Wavelet transform are very powerful compared to Fourier transform because its ability to describe any type of signals both in time and frequency domain simultaneously. In this paper, we will discuss the use of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Wavelet Based Image compression Algorithm-Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Tree (SPIHT). We do the numerical experiment by considering various types of images and by applying DCT and DWT-SPIHT to compress an image. We found that DWT yields better result as compared to DCT. For DWT, various wavelet filters such as Haar (2 filters) and Daubechies (up to 10 filters) are used. All the numerical results were done by using Matlab programming.