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Image Compression

The document discusses a wavelet-based image compression technique using subband thresholding. It proposes modifying the existing EZW coding method by trying to discard less significant information in the image data to achieve further compression with minimal effect on output image quality. The algorithm calculates the weight of each subband and identifies the subband in each level that contributes least to image reconstruction. This subband then undergoes thresholding to eliminate low-valued data before zerotree coding is applied for compression. Experiments showed that applying different threshold values resulted in increased compression ratios with negligible loss of image quality.

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Image Compression

The document discusses a wavelet-based image compression technique using subband thresholding. It proposes modifying the existing EZW coding method by trying to discard less significant information in the image data to achieve further compression with minimal effect on output image quality. The algorithm calculates the weight of each subband and identifies the subband in each level that contributes least to image reconstruction. This subband then undergoes thresholding to eliminate low-valued data before zerotree coding is applied for compression. Experiments showed that applying different threshold values resulted in increased compression ratios with negligible loss of image quality.

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WAVELET BASED IMAGE COMPRESSION USING SUBBAND THRESHOLD


G.MURALIDHAR E.RAVICHANDRA REDDY

IV B.Tech, E,C.E,
SRE KOTTAM TULASI REDDY MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF ENGEERING, ABSTRACT
Wavelet based image compression has been a focus of research in recent days. In this paper, we propose a compression technique based on modification of original EZW coding. In this lossy technique, we try to discard less significant information in the image data in order to achieve further compression with minimal effect on output image quality. The algorithm calculates weight of each subband and finds the subband in each level, that contributes least effect during image reconstruction, undergoes a threshold process to eliminate low-valued data in it. Zerotree coding is done next to the resultant output for compression. Different values of threshold were applied during experiment to see the effect on compression ratio and reconstructed image quality. The proposed method results in further increase in compression ration with negligible loss in image quality. INTRODUCTION Image compression is a technique of encoding an image to store it or send it using as fewer bits as possible. Presently the most common compression methods for still images fall into two categories: Discrete Cosine transform (DCT) based techniques and methods based on wavelet transform. Widely used image compression technique JPEG achieves compression by applying DCT to the image, whereas wavelet transform methods generally use discrete wavelet transform(DWT) for this purpose.

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