Review: On optimal orthogonal transforms at high bit-rates using only second order statistics in multicomponent image coding with JPEG2000

  • Authors:
  • Isidore Paul Akam Bita;Michel Barret;Dinh-Tuan Pham

  • Affiliations:
  • Luxspace Sarl, Chateau de Betzdorf, L-6815 Betzdorf, Luxembourg;Supelec, Information Multimodality and Signal Team, 2 rue í. Belin 57070 Metz, France;Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory, 51 rue des Mathématiques, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study a JPEG2000 compatible multicomponent image compression scheme, which consists in applying a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to each component of the image and a spectral linear transform between components. We consider the case of a spectral transform which adapts to the image and a 2-D DWT with fixed coefficients. In Akam Bita et al. (accepted for publication, [6]) we gave a criterion minimized by optimal spectral transforms. Here, we derive a simplified criterion by treating the transformed coefficients in each subband as having a Gaussian distribution of variance depending on the subband. Its minimization under orthogonality constraint is shown to lead to a joint approximate diagonalization problem, for which a fast algorithm (JADO) is available. Performances in coding of the transform returned by JADO are compared on hyper- and multi-spectral images with the Karhunen-Loeve transform (KLT) and the optimal transform (without Gaussianity assumption) returned by the algorithm OrthOST introduced in Akam Bita et al. (accepted for publication, [6]). For hyper- (resp. multi-) spectral images, we observe that JADO returns a transform which performs appreciably better than (resp. as well as) the KLT at medium to high bit-rates, nearly attaining (resp. slightly below) the performances of the transform returned by OrthOST, with a significantly lower complexity than the algorithm OrthOST.