With the advances of display technology, three-dimensional(3-D) imaging systems are becoming increasingly popular. One way of stimulating 3-D perception is to use stereo pairs, a pair of images of the same scene acqui...With the advances of display technology, three-dimensional(3-D) imaging systems are becoming increasingly popular. One way of stimulating 3-D perception is to use stereo pairs, a pair of images of the same scene acquired from different perspectives. Since there is an inherent redundancy between the images of a stereo pairs, data compression algorithms should be employed to represent stereo pairs efficiently. The proposed techniques generally use block-based disparity compensation. In order to get the higher compression ratio, this paper employs the wavelet-based mixed-resolution coding technique to incorporate with SPT-based disparity-compensation to compress the stereo image data. The mixed-resolution coding is a perceptually justified technique that is achieved by presenting one eye with a low-resolution image and the other with a high-resolution image. Psychophysical experiments show that the stereo image pairs with one high-resolution image and one low-resolution image provide almost the same stereo depth to that of a stereo image with two high-resolution images. By combining the mixed-resolution coding and SPT-based disparity-compensation techniques, one reference (left) high-resolution image can be compressed by a hierarchical wavelet transform followed by vector quantization and Huffman encoder. After two level wavelet decompositions, for the low-resolution right image and low-resolution left image, subspace projection technique using the fixed block size disparity compensation estimation is used. At the decoder, the low-resolution right subimage is estimated using the disparity from the low-resolution left subimage. A full-size reconstruction is obtained by upsampling a factor of 4 and reconstructing with the synthesis low pass filter. Finally, experimental results are presented, which show that our scheme achieves a PSNR gain (about 0.92dB) as compared to the current block-based disparity compensation coding techniques.展开更多
In this paper a novel coding method based on fuzzy vector quantization for noised image with Gaussian white-noise pollution is presented. By restraining the high frequency subbands of wavelet image the noise is signif...In this paper a novel coding method based on fuzzy vector quantization for noised image with Gaussian white-noise pollution is presented. By restraining the high frequency subbands of wavelet image the noise is significantly removed and coded with fuzzy vector quantization. The experimental result shows that the method can not only achieve high compression ratio but also remove noise dramatically.展开更多
A fast encoding algorithm based on the mean square error （MSE） distortion for vector quantization is introduced. The vector, which is effectively constructed with wavelet transform （WT） coefficients of images, can...A fast encoding algorithm based on the mean square error （MSE） distortion for vector quantization is introduced. The vector, which is effectively constructed with wavelet transform （WT） coefficients of images, can simplify the realization of the non-linear interpolated vector quantization （NLIVQ） technique and make the partial distance search （PDS） algorithm more efficient. Utilizing the relationship of vector L2-norm and its Euclidean distance, some conditions of eliminating unnecessary codewords are obtained. Further, using inequality constructed by the subvector L2-norm, more unnecessary codewords are eliminated. During the search process for code, mostly unlikely codewords can be rejected by the proposed algorithm combined with the non-linear interpolated vector quantization technique and the partial distance search technique. The experimental results show that the reduction of computation is outstanding in the encoding time and complexity against the full search method.展开更多
通过有机结合零树编码、位平面编码和算术编码,提出了一种基于零树和位平面的小波图像压缩算法ZBP(Zerotree and bit plane).ZBP不仅充分利用了零树符号之间的相关性,而且从位数据的层面上挖掘出了小波系数值之间的相关性,从而提高了算...通过有机结合零树编码、位平面编码和算术编码,提出了一种基于零树和位平面的小波图像压缩算法ZBP(Zerotree and bit plane).ZBP不仅充分利用了零树符号之间的相关性,而且从位数据的层面上挖掘出了小波系数值之间的相关性,从而提高了算术编码的性能.实验结果表明,ZBP的压缩效果优于目前已有的小波图像压缩算法.展开更多
基金This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (No. 69972027).
文摘With the advances of display technology, three-dimensional(3-D) imaging systems are becoming increasingly popular. One way of stimulating 3-D perception is to use stereo pairs, a pair of images of the same scene acquired from different perspectives. Since there is an inherent redundancy between the images of a stereo pairs, data compression algorithms should be employed to represent stereo pairs efficiently. The proposed techniques generally use block-based disparity compensation. In order to get the higher compression ratio, this paper employs the wavelet-based mixed-resolution coding technique to incorporate with SPT-based disparity-compensation to compress the stereo image data. The mixed-resolution coding is a perceptually justified technique that is achieved by presenting one eye with a low-resolution image and the other with a high-resolution image. Psychophysical experiments show that the stereo image pairs with one high-resolution image and one low-resolution image provide almost the same stereo depth to that of a stereo image with two high-resolution images. By combining the mixed-resolution coding and SPT-based disparity-compensation techniques, one reference (left) high-resolution image can be compressed by a hierarchical wavelet transform followed by vector quantization and Huffman encoder. After two level wavelet decompositions, for the low-resolution right image and low-resolution left image, subspace projection technique using the fixed block size disparity compensation estimation is used. At the decoder, the low-resolution right subimage is estimated using the disparity from the low-resolution left subimage. A full-size reconstruction is obtained by upsampling a factor of 4 and reconstructing with the synthesis low pass filter. Finally, experimental results are presented, which show that our scheme achieves a PSNR gain (about 0.92dB) as compared to the current block-based disparity compensation coding techniques.
文摘In this paper a novel coding method based on fuzzy vector quantization for noised image with Gaussian white-noise pollution is presented. By restraining the high frequency subbands of wavelet image the noise is significantly removed and coded with fuzzy vector quantization. The experimental result shows that the method can not only achieve high compression ratio but also remove noise dramatically.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60602057)the NaturalScience Foundation of Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (2006BB2373).
文摘A fast encoding algorithm based on the mean square error （MSE） distortion for vector quantization is introduced. The vector, which is effectively constructed with wavelet transform （WT） coefficients of images, can simplify the realization of the non-linear interpolated vector quantization （NLIVQ） technique and make the partial distance search （PDS） algorithm more efficient. Utilizing the relationship of vector L2-norm and its Euclidean distance, some conditions of eliminating unnecessary codewords are obtained. Further, using inequality constructed by the subvector L2-norm, more unnecessary codewords are eliminated. During the search process for code, mostly unlikely codewords can be rejected by the proposed algorithm combined with the non-linear interpolated vector quantization technique and the partial distance search technique. The experimental results show that the reduction of computation is outstanding in the encoding time and complexity against the full search method.
文摘通过有机结合零树编码、位平面编码和算术编码,提出了一种基于零树和位平面的小波图像压缩算法ZBP(Zerotree and bit plane).ZBP不仅充分利用了零树符号之间的相关性,而且从位数据的层面上挖掘出了小波系数值之间的相关性,从而提高了算术编码的性能.实验结果表明,ZBP的压缩效果优于目前已有的小波图像压缩算法.
