A Study on Non-octave Scalable Image Coding and Its Performance Evaluation Using Digital Cinema Test Material

  • Authors:

  • Takayuki Nakachi;Tomoko Sawabe;Junji Suzuki;Tetsuro Fujii

  • Affiliations:

  • The authors are with NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka-shi, 239-0847 Japan. E-mail: nakachi.takayuki@lab.ntt.co.jp,;The authors are with NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka-shi, 239-0847 Japan. E-mail: nakachi.takayuki@lab.ntt.co.jp,;The author is with Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi-ken, 480-1198 Japan.;The authors are with NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka-shi, 239-0847 Japan. E-mail: nakachi.takayuki@lab.ntt.co.jp,

  • Venue:
  • IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

JPEG2000, an international standard for still image compression, offers 1) high coding performance, 2) unified lossless/lossy compression, and 3) resolution and SNR scalability. Resolution scalability is an especially promising attribute given the popularity of Super High Definition (SHD) images like digital-cinema. Unfortunately, its current implementation of resolution scalability is restricted to powers of two. In this paper, we introduce non-octave scalable coding (NSC) based on the use of filter banks. Two types of non-octave scalable coding are implemented. One is based on a DCT filter bank and the other uses wavelet transform. The latter is compatible with JPEG2000 Part2. By using the proposed algorithm, images with rational scale resolutions can be decoded from a compressed bit stream. Experiments on digital cinema test material show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.