Image compression using wavelet support vector machines

  • Authors:
  • Yuancheng Li;Haitao Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ICIC'07 Proceedings of the intelligent computing 3rd international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a new image compression algorithm which combines Wavelet Support Vector Machines (WSVM) learning with the wavelet transform. Based on the characteristic of wavelet transform, Daubechies 9/7 wavelet has been used to transform the image and the wavelet coefficients are trained with WSVM using translation-invariant wavelet kernels. Compression is achieved by using WSVM learning to approximate wavelet coefficients with the predefined level of accuracy. A minimal number of coefficients (support vectors) are then encoded by an effective entropy coder based on run-length and arithmetic coding. Experimental results show that the proposed method gains better performance than that of existing compression algorithm.