Wavelet Based Image Compression Techniques

With advances in multimedia technologies, demand for transmission and storage of voluminous multimedia data has dramatically increased and, as a consequence, data compression is now essential in reducing the amount of data prior storage or transmission. Compression techniques aim to minimise the number of bits required to represent image data while maintaining an acceptable visual quality. Image compression is achieved by exploiting the spatial and perceptual redundancies present in image data. Image compression techniques are classified into two categories, lossless and lossy. Lossless techniques refer to those that allow recovery of the original input data from its compressed representation without any loss of information, i.e. after decoding, an identical copy of the original data can be restored. Lossy techniques offer higher compression ratios but it is impossible to recover the original data from its compressed data, as some of the input information is lost during the lossy compression. These techniques are designed to minimise the amount of distortion introduced into the image data at certain compression ratios. Compression is usually achieved by transforming the image data into another domain, e.g. frequency or wavelet domains, and then quantizing and losslessy encoding the transformed coefficients (Ghanbari, 1999; Peng & Kieffer, 2004; Wang et al., 2001). In recent years much research has been undertaken to develop efficient image compression techniques. This research has led to the development of two standard image compression techniques called: JPEG and JPEG2000 (JPEG, 1994; JPEG 2000, 2000), and many nonstandard image compression algorithms (Said & Pearlman, 1996; Scargall & Dlay, 2000; Shapiro, 1993).

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