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....62] Generally, the motivation was to reduce the blockiness that plagued fractally coded images. Since that time, fractal wavelet coders have been shown [10, 45, 30] to be able to demonstrate rate distortion performances that can match state of the art (at the time) wavelet coders such as SPIHT [58]. We also mention that FW transforms have been used quite e ectively for the compression of one dimensional audio signals [66] Our work on fractal wavelet transforms has been motivated by the philosophy which has been supported by experimental veri cations that they have the potential to ....

A. Said and W.P. Pearlman, A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Tech. 6, 243-250 (1996).

....column of Figure 18 illustrates, the decorations in the optimal partition do not cohere globally. 5 Level Three: Local Chaining of Line Segments It can be argued that the tree based algorithms of Section 4 bring up issues already familiar from tree based algorithms used in the wavelets community [46,13] and, more broadly, in the multiscale community, where quadtree partitioning has been in use for many years. In this and following sections we will use the structure of the beamlet graph in a way not available within the wavelet lexicon, exploiting the neighborhood properties of the beamlet graph ....

A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "A new, fast and e#cient image codec based on set partitioning in hierachical trees," IEEE Tr. on Circuits and Systems for Video Techn., Vol. 6, pp.243-250, June 1996.

....wavelet or a 2 level decomposition using an 8 band wavelet. For 2048 2560 images, we have a 4 level 4 band wavelet decomposition or a 3level 8 band wavelet decomposition. The resulting DCT coecients are rearranged into the wavelet data structure, then the progressive encoding algorithm SPIHT [12] is used to encode coecients of all transforms. The reader is reminded that the 9 7 wavelet lters have 4 vanishing moments. The traditional wavelet transform has better tree depth. However, the M band wavelets yield better frequency localization. From Table IV, it can be observed that the ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans on Circuits Syst. Video Tech., vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....matching optimization that can be applied to a variety of source and channel coders. Although we have developed the source model for a wide variety of coders, we will focus on progressive coders here for the benefits of scalability and graceful degradation. For the Said and Pearlman [5] (SPIHT) coder, we have found that a suitable source model of distortion (in terms of mean squared error (MSE) on the b th bit is D(b) 4 k=1 c k e lk b , where c k and l k are parameters specific to a particular class of images. The channel is modeled by BER as a function of symbol ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, "A new fast and e#cient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 6, pp. 243--250, June 1996.

....that the entire set of higher rate codes obtained by puncturing are good. To find a good unequal error protection for embedded bit streams, we employ the fast joint source channel coding algorithm in [2] to minimize the expected end to end distortion. We test with two scalable image coders (SPIHT [3] and JPEG 2000 [4] and two scalable video coders (3 D SPIHT [5] and H.26L based PFGS [6] Simulations show better results with IRA codes than those reported in [7] with JPEG 2000 and turbo codes. The IRA codes proposed here also have lower decoding complexity than the turbo codes used in [7] ....

....of the previous reconstructed image. In many cases, the channel is noisy and can be modeled as a binary symmetric channel (BSC) Recently, scalable image and video transmission over various channels have been considered in [12] 17] These schemes generally involve embedded source coding [3], 4] 5] channel coding [18] 19] and joint source channel coding (JSCC) 12] 15] 20] In [21] Sherwood and Zeger showed the e#ectiveness of using set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) coder [3] and equal error protection with rate compatible punctured convolutional (RCPC) codes ....

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A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, "A new, fast, and e#cient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....processing that captures the inherent geometry of images. By geometry we refer to the fact that image edges and ridges tend to lie along more or less smooth curves. Edges are perceptually one of the most prominent features in images (the other is texture) Even the best wavelet based coders [1 3] show weakness when dealing with edges. These coders are ideally suited to representing isotropic textures and smooth (polynomial) image regions, but ill suited to representing singularities such as edges, for the following reasons. First, the number of wavelet coecients required to This work ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

.... Rate scalable image compression, or progressive transmission of images, has been extensively investigated [74, 75, 76] Reviews on this subject can be found in [77, 78] Di#erent transforms, such as the Laplacian pyramid [74] the discrete cosine transform (DCT) 76] and the wavelet transform [22, 79], have been used for progressive transmission. Shapiro introduced a wavelet based embedded rate scalable image compression algorithm. A spatial orientation tree (SOT) known as a zerotree, was used to exploit interdependence between the subbands of a wavelet decomposed image [22] Since then, ....

....Shapiro introduced a wavelet based embedded rate scalable image compression algorithm. A spatial orientation tree (SOT) known as a zerotree, was used to exploit interdependence between the subbands of a wavelet decomposed image [22] Since then, variations of the algorithm have been proposed [80, 79, 81, 82], among which the one proposed by Said and Pearlman [79] has attracted the most attention. In [22] and [79] slightly di#erent tree structures were used and good rate scalability was achieved. However, both algorithms were developed for grayscale images. For color images, the algorithm has to be ....

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A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, "A new, fast, and e#cient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 243--250, June 1996.

....for transmission over broadband networks, are those that are continuously scalable. Continuous rate scalability provides the capability of arbitrarily selecting a specific decoder data rate from within a range of data rates. A specific coding strategy known as embedded rate scalable coding [1, 2] is well suited for continuous rate scalable applications. In embedded coding, all the compressed data is embedded in a single bit stream and can be decoded at di#erent data rates. To achieve best performance the bits that convey the most important information need to be embedded at the beginning ....

....data is embedded in a single bit stream and can be decoded at di#erent data rates. To achieve best performance the bits that convey the most important information need to be embedded at the beginning of the compressed bit stream. Several embedded rate scalable coding schemes have been proposed[2,3,4,5]. This work was partially supported by grants from Lucent Technologies, the AT T Foundation, the Rockwell Foundation, and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR 9624525. Address all correspondence to E. J. Delp, ace ecn.purdue.edu, http: www.ecn.purdue.edu #ace,or 1 765 494 1740. ....

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....of the source. However, unlike MD coders described in the previous subsection, these coders do not explicitly reintroduce redundancy into the data stream. Packetized zerotree wavelet (PZW) 11] is a method for packetizing the bit stream produced by zerotree coders, such as EZW [12] and SPIHT [13]. The method wasdesignedforATMtransmissionofimages. The idea behind PZW is the following. In most natural images, lowest frequency subband has the highest energy and is visually most important. Further, due to repeated low pass . ltering, coecients in this band exhibit relatively high ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, "A new, fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Tech., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 243-249, June 1996.

....variant in terms of rate distortion performance. I. Introduction Many recent image coding techniques for generating an embedded bit stream rely on coding wavelet coecients of an image bit plane by bit plane, with the most signi cant bit plane rst. Embedded image coders such as EZW [1] SPIHT [2], and ECECOW [3] di er chie y in the method of encoding bit planes. Shapiro s use of zerotrees in EZW showed that clever coding of wavelet coecients can lead to image compression algorithms that are fast and e ective in rate distortion performance. SPIHT improved upon EZW with a better method of ....

....group testing algorithm. In fact, group testing can be thought of as a generalization of the zerotree coding technique. When zerotree coding tests a tree for signi cance, it is essentially performing a group test on the coecients in that tree. The significance pass (called the sorting pass in [2]) of the SPIHT algorithm can be thought of as a group tester that identi es the signi cant coecients of a given bit plane. Group testing is more general than zerotree coding because the groups that it tests together are not restricted to be trees, but can be arbitrary collections of coecients. ....

A. Said and W. Pearlman, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....stream scalability (bit stream scalability refers to the ability to be able to decode from the same stream to better and better qualities as more bits are decoded) in order to support a wide range of bit rates corresponding to available user bandwidths. The state of the art image coder, 2D SPIHT [16] produces a fully progressive code which means that if the transmission is stopped at any point, a lower bit image can still be decompressed and reconstructed. A longer pre x of the bit stream simply yields a higher reconstructed image quality when decoded. The reconstructed quality for such ....

A. Said and A. Pearlman, W, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Transactions on Circuit Systems and Video Technology, vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....Farvardin ranged from 2.82 to 44.76 for total bit rates between 0.25 and 2 bits per pixel. Keywords Image compression, joint source channel coding, unequal error protection, embedded codes. I. Introduction T HE rate distortion performance of zero tree based wavelet coders (e.g. the SPIHT coder [1]) is competitive; both the encoding and the decoding are very fast, and the bit stream is embedded, allowing ecient progressive transmission. The encoder uses a discrete wavelet transform to decompose the image into subbands. Coding of the wavelet coecients exploits a tree structured dependency ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....9.63 dB level of the optimal GLBT [22] 23] The improvement in coding performance over the DCT and sometimes the 9 7 tap wavelet transform is very promising as demonstrated by the image coding experiment in the next section. B. Image Coding Experiment The same SPIHT s quantizer and entropy coder [40] are utilized to encode the coecients of every transform. The encoding algorithm is xed; we only change the decomposition and the corresponding reconstruction stage. The transforms in the coding experiment are the same ve compared in the last section. The test images are Goldhill and Barbara, ....

....in the coding experiment are the same ve compared in the last section. The test images are Goldhill and Barbara, both standard 512 512 8 bit grayscale images. The results obtained with the 9 7 tap wavelet (6 levels of decomposition here) are exactly those from the original SPIHT algorithm [40]. In the four 8 channel cases, we use the modi ed zerotree structure in [29] 41] where each block of transform coecients are treated analogously to a full wavelet tree and three more levels of wavelet decomposition are employed to decorrelate the DC subband further. The objective coding results ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....which can further reduce the dynamic range of the transform. For instance, the DC coecient in the modi ed structure is the average of all inputs, while in the original structure, it is the summation of the inputs. The lossless binDCT has been implemented with two coding methods: Hu man and SPIHT [49]. To use Hu man coding, a new Hu man table is obtained by modifying the one in the JPEG standard, since the statistic distribution of the binDCT coecients is di erent from that of the original DCT coecients. In the SPIHT method, we rearrange the binDCT coecients according to the pattern of the ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans on Cir. Sys. Vid. Tech., vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....convincing from the point of view of the electrical engineer. On the other hand, coding techniques for compression have become increasingly sophisticated in the last few years, steadily obtaining better results. Some of the improved strategies for wavelet or subband image coders, such as [22] or [21], were inspired by, or can be heuristically explained by mathematical arguments. Yet there exist no mathematical estimates for these coding strategies of the same level of detail and depth as for the coding wise more na ive non linear approximation theory. The goal of this paper is to provide ....

....of view has recently been adopted in [3] to directly model the statistics of images. The second one is in accordance with the idea that the signi cant wavelet coecients of images tend to organize according to a tree structure. It is actually quite similar to the approach developed in [22] and [21]. Although, these encoders are thus expected to work well on images, a complete mathematical analysis in this context is inherently limited by the diculties of modeling the ne properties of natural images in a proper way. The present paper provides a complete analysis for the simple PSM model, as ....

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....performance at a relatively modest level of complexity. The state of the art MSE performance of EZW, together with its modest complexity and embedded bitstream captured the interest of the compression research community, and a tremendous research e ort was ignited by its publication. In [2], Shapiro s zero trees were generalized, and set partitioning techniques were introduced to e ectively code these generalized trees of zeros. The resulting technique is known as set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) The SPIHT algorithm produces results superior to those of EZW at even ....

A. Said and W. A. Pearlman, \A new fast and ecient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996.

....variant in terms of rate distortion performance. I. Introduction Many recent image coding techniques for generating an embedded bit stream rely on coding wavelet coecients of an image bit plane by bit plane, with the most signi cant bit plane rst. Embedded image coders such as EZW [1] SPIHT [2], and ECECOW [3] di er chie y in the method of encoding bit planes. In this paper, we address the problem of how to eciently code the bit planes of a wavelettransformed image. Shapiro s use of zerotrees in EZW [1] showed that clever coding of wavelet coecients can lead to image compression ....

....this paper, we address the problem of how to eciently code the bit planes of a wavelettransformed image. Shapiro s use of zerotrees in EZW [1] showed that clever coding of wavelet coecients can lead to image compression algorithms that are fast and e ective in rate distortion performance. SPIHT [2] improved upon EZW with a better method of managing how the trees are subdivided. This paper introduces a new image coder, called Group Testing for Wavelets (GTW) Our algorithm seeks to improve upon these two previous works by placing coecients into groups which are then coded. Since the groups ....

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....in any case. For data that cannot tolerate any loss, the protocol adapter uses lossless compression. An even better form of dynamic data adaptation involves the use of progressive data formats such as progressive JPEG [58] or any of a multitude of research codecs based on sub band transforms [47, 51] or hierarchical vector quantization [10] with such formats, the adapter initially generates a low quality image for the client and gradually lls in higher quality information in the background. The protocol adapter uses specialized transformation engines to perform these conversions. These ....

Said, A., and Pearlman, W. A. A New Fast and Ecient Image Codec Based on Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1996). Submitted for publication.

....standard will be based on wavelet transform, it is pivotal for a practical watermarking algorithm to be robust to wavelet based compression. In this section, we will test the performance of various methods with respect to the SPIHT (set partitioning in hierarchical tree) based WT compression [21], which is one of the progressive predecessors of the EBCOT [26] the current JPEG2000 veri cation model. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING 6 (a) b) c) d) e) f) Fig. 3. Di erence between the original and watermarked images with di erent methods; a) BlkDCTHF; b) GlbDCT1; c) DCTDFT; ....

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....Our target application is digital mammography, where high compression rates achieved with lossy compression are necessary due to the vast image sizes, while relatively small regions containing signs of cancer must remain practically unchanged. We showhowVQIC can be implemented on top of SPIHT [11], an embedded wavelet encoding scheme. We have revised the algorithm to use matrixes, which gives more ecient implementation both in terms of memory usage and execution time. The e ect of the VQIC on the quality of compressed images is demonstrated with two test pictures: a drawing and a more ....

....encoding (EZW) by Shapiro [12] is an excellent example of such coding scheme, and also a good reference to wavelet based image compression in general. One of the most advanced wavelet based image compression techniques is SPIHT (Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees) by Said and Pearlman [11]. SPIHT is clearly a descendant of EZW using similar zerotree structure and bitplane coding. In bitplane coding bits of wavelet coecients are transmitted in the order of their importance, i.e. the coecients are encoded gradually with increasing accuracy. Because of this, the encoding can be ....

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