Low bit rate image compression core for onboard space applications

  • Authors:
  • P. Corsonello;S. Perri;G. Staino;M. Lanuzza;G. Cocorullo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron., Univ. of Calabria, Arcavacata Di Rende, Italy;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents low-cost, purpose optimized discrete wavelet transform-based image compressors for future spacecrafts and microsatellites. The hardware solution proposed here exploits a modified set partitioning in hierarchical trees algorithm and ensures that appropriate reconstructed image qualities can be achieved also for compression ratios over 100:1. Several implementations are presented varying the parallelism level and the tile size. Obtained results demonstrate that, using a parallel implementation operating on a 64 × 64 size tile, a maximum data rate of about 18 Mpixels/s can be sustained. In this case, only 4500 slices and 24 BlockRAMs of a XILINX Virtex II device are required.