Vector quantization using tree-structured self-organizing feature maps

In this paper, we propose a binary-tree structure neural network model suitable for structured clustering. During and after training, the centroids of the clusters in this model always form a binary tree in the input pattern space. This model is used to design tree search vector quantization codebooks for image coding. Simulation results show that the acquired codebook not only produces better-quality images but also achieves a higher compression ratio than conventional tree search vector quantization. When source coding is applied after VQ, the new model performs better than the generalized Lloyd algorithm in terms of distortion, bits per pixel, and encoding complexity for low-detail and medium-detail images