Image compression via improved quadtree decomposition algorithms

  • Authors:
  • E. Shusterman;M. Feder

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Tel Aviv Univ.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Quadtree decomposition is a simple technique used to obtain an image representation at different resolution levels. This representation can be useful for a variety of image processing and image compression algorithms. This paper presents a simple way to get better compression performances (in MSE sense) via quadtree decomposition, by using near to optimal choice of the threshold for quadtree decomposition; and bit allocation procedure based on the equations derived from rate-distortion theory. The rate-distortion performance of the improved algorithm is calculated for some Gaussian field, and it is examined vie simulation over benchmark gray-level images. In both these cases, significant improvement in the compression performances is shown