JPEG2000 encoding with perceptual distortion control

In this paper, a new JPEG2000-compliant encoding approach is proposed to control the JPEG2000 encoding in order to achieve a desired perceptual quality. Our method is based on a vision model that incorporates various masking effects of the human visual perception and on a perceptual distortion metric that takes spatial and spectral summation of individual quantization errors into account. Compared with the conventional JPEG2000 rate-based distortion minimization encoding, our method provides a way to generate consistent quality images with lower bit rate.