Optimization and assessment of wavelet packet decompositions with evolutionary computation

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Schell;Andreas Uhl

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Scientific Computing, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria;Department of Scientific Computing, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In image compression, the wavelet transformation is a state-of-the-art component. Recently, wavelet packet decomposition has received quite an interest. A popular approach for wavelet packet decomposition is the near-best-basis algorithm using nonadditive cost functions. In contrast to additive cost functions, the wavelet packet decomposition of the near-best-basis algorithm is only suboptimal. We apply methods from the field of evolutionary computation (EC) to test the quality of the near-best-basis results. We observe a phenomenon: the results of the near-best-basis algorithm are inferior in terms of cost-function optimization but are superior in terms of rate/distortion performance compared to EC methods.