A Wavelet Image Compression Scheme using PVQ

Rosa Lancini, Stefano Tubaro, Marco Barbieri

This work presents an application of Pyramid Vector Quantization (PVQ), with a global bit allocation on wavelet coefficients. First a two level bit-allocation strategy has been used: the available bit-rate is subdivided on the sub-images, and then for each sub-image an allocation strategy is used to distridute the available bits through the vectors to quantize. Sucessively a one-level bit allocation strategy (global bit-allocation) over all vectors of all sub-images has been considered. Simulations carried out on several test images give good subjective and objective results compared to other wavelet-based coding techniques already proposed in literature.

Published
1996-10
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/M001258
ISBN
978-1-61482-947-8