Color Image Compression Using a Hilbert Scan

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  • ICPR '98 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition-Volume 2 - Volume 2
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  • 1998

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Abstract

Hilbert curve is one of space-filling curves published by G. Peano. There are several applications using this curve such as image processing, computer graphics, etc. In this paper, we concentrate on a compression technique for color images using the Hilbert curve. The merit of this curve is to pass through all points in a quadrant, and always to move to the neighbor quadrant. Our method is based on this neighborhood property by a simple segmentation of the scanned one dimensional data using a zero order interpolation. From our experiments, we have confirmed that inspite of the simple computation in comparison to JPEG, acceptable quality images can be obtained at the same bit-rates.