Tree Structured Vector Quantization with Dynamic Path Search

  • Authors:
  • Fun-Chou Shiue

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICPP '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Workshops on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

A new branch of tree-structured vector quantization is proposed to encode images. We call it the Dynamic Path Tree Structured Vector Quantization (DPTSVQ). Multi-path TSVQ uses a fixed number of paths to search the closest code-word; however, there is still plenty of room for improvement. To do way with the lack of flexibility fixed number of search paths, we propose DPTSVQ to take the place of multi-path TSVQ. With DPTSVQ, we try to improve multi-path TSVQ and make the number of search paths become variable. In this paper, we define a critical function to judge whether the number of search paths is growable for DPTSVQ. Our experimental results show that DPTSVQ is always faster than multi-path TSVQ with the image quality kept the same. DPTSVQ can reduce 50% of the encoding time, in general, from what is spent by multi-path TSVQ under the same image quality requirement. If such high image quality as that of full search is required, DPTSVQ remains more timesaving than multi-path TSVQ all the same.