Title :
A BTC-based technique for improving image compression
Author :
Masoudnia, A. ; Sarbazi-Azad, H. ; Boussakta, S.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Inst. for Studies in Theor. Phys. & Math., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
In this paper a novel technique using the Block Truncation Coding (BTC) to further improve the compression quality of a 4-tap integer wavelet filter is proposed. Experimental results reveal that noticeable improvements can be achieved using the proposed BTC-based technique.
Keywords :
block codes; computational complexity; data compression; image coding; transform coding; wavelet transforms; 4-tap integer wavelet filter; block truncation coding; channel error resisting ability; image coding; image compression quality; local binarisation process; lossy image compression; low computational complexity; real-time image compression; spline integer wavelet filter; Compression algorithms; Image coding; Image reconstruction; Pixel; Reconstruction algorithms;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8163-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301988
