Abstract

We extend our previous work on space-frequency quantization (SFQ) [1] for image coding from wavelet transforms to the more general wavelet packet transforms [2]. The resulting wavelet packet coder offers an universal transform coding framework within the constraints of filter bank structures by allowing joint transform and quantizer design without assuming a priori statistics of the input image. In other words, the new coder adaptively chooses the representation to suit the image and the quantization to suit the representation. Experimental results show that, for some image classes, our new coder gives excellent coding performance. 1 Introduction Recently, wavelet transforms have attracted considerable attention, especially with applications to image coding, due to their ability to provide attractive space-frequency resolution tradeoffs for natural images [3, 4]. In addition to conventional scalar (or vector) quantization strategies that are common in subband coding [5], the hierarchi...

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