Memory-efficient spatial prediction image compression scheme

  • Authors:
  • Anil V. Nandi;L. M. Patnaik;R. M. Banakar

  • Affiliations:
  • Computational Neurobiology Group, Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Microprocessor Applications Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, Karnataka, India;Computational Neurobiology Group, Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Microprocessor Applications Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, Karnataka, India;Computational Neurobiology Group, Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Microprocessor Applications Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, Karnataka, India

  • Venue:
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In prediction phase, the hierarchical tree structure obtained from the test image is used to predict every central pixel of an image by its four neighboring pixels. The prediction scheme generates the predicted error image, to which the wavelet/sub-band coding algorithm can be applied to obtain efficient compression. In quantization phase, we used a modified SPIHT algorithm to achieve efficiency in memory requirements. The memory constraint plays a vital role in wireless and bandwidth-limited applications. A single reusable list is used instead of three continuously growing linked lists as in case of SPIHT. This method is error resilient. The performance is measured in terms of PSNR and memory requirements. The algorithm shows good compression performance and significant savings in memory.