Group Testing for Image Compression

  • Authors:
  • Edwin S. Hong;Richard E. Ladner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DCC '00 Proceedings of the Conference on Data Compression
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper presents the Group Testing for Wavelets algorithm (GTW), which is a novel embedded wavelet-based image compression technique based on the concept of group testing. We explain how group testing is a generalization of the zerotree coding technique for wavelet-transformed images. We also show that Golomb coding is equivalent to Hwang's group testing algorithm. GTW is similar to SPIHT but replaces SPIHT's sorting pass with a new group testing based method. Although no arithmetic coding is implemented, GTW performs competitively with SPIHT's arithmetic coding variant in terms of rate-distortion performance.