title: Wavelet-based scalable L-infinity-oriented compression.
abstract: Among the different classes of coding techniques proposed in literature, predictive schemes have proven their outstanding performance in near-lossless compression. However, these schemes are incapable of providing embedded L(infinity)-oriented compression, or, at most, provide a very limited number of potential L(infinity) bit-stream truncation points. We propose a new multidimensional wavelet-based L(infinity)-constrained scalable coding framework that generates a fully embedded L(infinity)-oriented bit stream and that retains the coding performance and all the scalability options of state-of-the-art L2-oriented wavelet codecs. Moreover, our codec instantiation of the proposed framework clearly outperforms JPEG2000 in L(infinity) coding sense.
authors.affiliation: Electronics and Informatics Department (ETRO), Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology (IBBT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. aalecu@etro.vub.ac.be
authors.forename: Alin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alecu
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Munteanu
authors.forename: Jan P H
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Cornelis
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schelkens
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted