title: Noise reduction of VQ encoded images through anti-gray coding.
abstract: Noise reduction of VQ encoded images is achieved through the proposed anti-gray coding (AGC) and noise detection and correction scheme. In AGC, binary indices are assigned to the codevector in such a way that the 1-b neighbors of a code vector are as far apart as possible. To detect the channel errors, we first classify an image into uniform and edge regions. Then we propose a mask to detect the channel errors based on the image classification (uniform or edge region) and the characteristics of AGC. We also mathematically derive a criterion for error detection based on the image classification. Once error indices are detected, the recovered indices can be easily chosen from a "candidate set" by minimizing the gray-level transition across the block boundaries in a VQ encoded image. Simulation results show that the proposed technique provides detection results with smaller than 0.1% probability of error and more than 86.3% probability of detection at a random bit error rate of 0.1%, while the undetected errors are invisible. In addition, the proposed detection and correction techniques improve the image quality (compared with that encoded by AGC) by 3.9 dB.
authors.affiliation: Signal and Med. Labs., Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Chiayi. kuo@ee.ccu.edu.tw
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Yeh