New multi-resolution SPIHT approach with simple error detection

SPIHT algorithm, evolving from EZW, is so far one of the most influential wavelet compression algorithms, which encodes wavelet coefficients according to their energy or significance through a unique pass. Due to the introduction of wavelet tree and the certain pass, high compression ratio was obtained as well as high quality of image or video. Multi-resolution SPIHT, being later proposed, promised resolution option based on channel condition. However, accurate path information is so demanded in SPIHT that any error of path bit will bring decoding failure of following bits. Various mechanisms were employed to protect the path information, which turn out of little help to fundamentally enhance its capability of anti-noise. The algorithm proposed in the paper provides the decoder with high PSNR and error detection without additional bits by improving the original algorithm.