WO2001031906A2 - Method for local zerotree image coding - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to the processing of images such as photographs, drawings, and other two dimensional displays It further relates to the processing of such images after they have been captured in digital format or after they have been converted to or otherwise expressed in digital format This invention further relates to use of novel coding methods to increase the speed and compression ratio for digital image storage and transmission
- this invention comprises the steps of partitioning the image into a plurality of local blocks, performing a block coding transform on each local block of the plurality of local blocks so as to produce a corresponding plurality of sets of local block transform coefficients using a block coding algorithm, quantizing the local block transform coefficients in each set of local block transform coefficients of the plurality of local block transform coefficients, arranging the plurality of sets of quantized local block transform coefficients in a wavelet-like quad-tree structure, and concatenating the bit-streams of the encoded quantized coefficients from each of the plurality of local blocks
- FIG. 1 shows the wavelet and block transform analogy
- Figure 2 is a diagram of LZT coding
- Figure 3 illustrates the LiftLT analysis/ synthesis lattice
- Figure 4 shows reconstructed 512 X 512 Barbara images from coding examples compiled in Table 1.
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Embedded coding algorithms rely on the hierarchical tree structure of coefficients called a wavelet tree, defined as a set of wavelet coefficients from different scales that belong in the same spatial locality as demonstrated in Figure 1(a), where the tree in the horizontal direction 5 is circled All of the coefficients in the lowest frequency band make up the DC band or the reference signal (located at the upper left corner) 6 Besides these DC coefficients, in a wavelet tree of a particular direction, each lower-frequency parent node has four corresponding higher-frequency offspring nodes 7 All coefficients below a parent node in the same spatial locality is defined as its descendants 8
- a coefficient c y is defined to be significant with respect to a given threshold T if c ⁇ T, and insignificant otherwise Review of image statistics has shown that if a coefficient is insignificant, it is very likely that its offspring and descend
- embedded zerotree coders can employ a very simple quantization scheme — all subbands are scalar-quantized by a single step-size Hence, prior to the encoding step, the same number of least significant bit planes of all coefficients from all LZT groups are truncated
- the method can diverge from bit-rate control to quality control in a fashion similar to that of JPEG, W B Pennebaker and J L Mitchell, JPEG Still Image Compression Standard, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993, where each subband is quantized by a predetermined step-size governed by the response of the human visual system
- the basic LZT structure is shown in Figure 2
- the LZT partitions can be of different shapes and sizes
- the image can be encoded in strips
- the output bitstream for each LZT partition must include the maximum magnitude of the partition's coefficients (to be used as the initial threshold value by the decoder) and the mean of its DC subband
- there must also be a special END-OF-BLOCK marker to inform the decoder of the boundary between different LZTs Encoding these values takes a small number of extra bytes
- the side information needed for LZT coding is negligible unless the LZT block size becomes small
- Another interesting feature that LZT can support is region- of-interest coding/decoding the LZT partitions can be quantized with different step sizes resulting in different levels of reproducibility
- Table 1 sets forth numerical comparison of the coder of this invention with fully embedded coders For fair comparison, the same SPIHT quantizer and entropy coder are utilized to transfer the coefficients in all coding schemes The coders in comparison (with the associated transforms) are
- LZT images are comparable in visual quality to the fully embedded EZ- LT coder image Top left 64 X 64 LZT 10 Top right 128 X 128 LZT 11 Bottom left 256 X 256 LZT 12 Bottom right fully embedded EZ-LT coder 13
- the boundaries between LZT partitions are imperceptible
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