Small storage space for photographs in formal documents is increasingly necessary in today＇s needs for huge amounts of data communication and storage. Traditional compression algorithms do not sufficiently utilize th...Small storage space for photographs in formal documents is increasingly necessary in today＇s needs for huge amounts of data communication and storage. Traditional compression algorithms do not sufficiently utilize the distinctness of formal photographs. That is, the object is an image of the human head, and the background is in unicolor. Therefore, the compression is of low efficiency and the image after compression is still space-consuming. This paper presents an image compression algorithm based on object segmentation for practical high-efficiency applications. To achieve high coding efficiency, shape-adaptive discrete wavelet transforms are used to transformation arbitrarily shaped objects. The areas of the human head and its background are compressed separately to reduce the coding redundancy of the background. Two methods, lossless image contour coding based on differential chain, and modified set partitioning in hierarchical trees （SPIHT） algorithm of arbitrary shape, are discussed in detail. The results of experiments show that when bit per pixel （bpp）is equal to 0.078, peak signal-to-noise ratio （PSNR） of reconstructed photograph will exceed the standard of SPIHT by nearly 4dB.展开更多
Currently,in multimedia and image processing technologies, implementing special kinds of image manipulation operations by dealing directly with the compressed image is a work worthy to be concerned with. Theoretical a...Currently,in multimedia and image processing technologies, implementing special kinds of image manipulation operations by dealing directly with the compressed image is a work worthy to be concerned with. Theoretical analysis and experiment haVe indicated that some kinds of image processing works can be done very well by dealing with compressed image. In Ans paper, we give some efficient image manipulation operation algorithms operating on the compressed image data. These algorithms have advantages in computing complexity, storage space retirement and image quality.展开更多
To achieve high-quality image compression of a floral canopy,a region of interest(ROI)mask of the wavelet domain was generated through the automatic identification of the canopy ROI and lifting the bit-plane of the RO...To achieve high-quality image compression of a floral canopy,a region of interest(ROI)mask of the wavelet domain was generated through the automatic identification of the canopy ROI and lifting the bit-plane of the ROI to obtain priority of coding for the ROI-set partitioning in hierarchical trees(ROI-SPIHT)coding.The embedded zerotree wavelet(EZW)coding was conducted for the background(BG)region of the image and a relatively more low-frequency wavelet coefficient was obtained using a relatively small amount of coding.Through the weighing factor r of the ROI coding amount,the proportion of the ROI and BG coding amount was dynamically adjusted to generate embedded,truncatable bit streams.Despite the location of truncation,the image information and ROI mask information required by the decoder can be guaranteed to achieve high-quality compression and reconstruction of the image ROI.The results indicated that under the same bit rate,the larger the r value is,the larger the peak-signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)for the ROI reconstructed image and the smaller the PSNR for the BG reconstructed image.In the range of 0.07-1.09 bpp,the PSNR of the ROI reconstructed image was 42.65%higher on average than that of the BG reconstructed image,43.95%higher on average than that of the composite image of the ROI and BG(ALL),and 16.84%higher on average than that of the standard SPIHT reconstructed image.Additionally,the mean square error of the quality evaluation index and similarity for the ROI reconstructed image were both better than those for the BG,ALL,and standard SPIHT reconstructed images.The texture distortion of the ALL image was smaller than that of the SPIHT reconstructed image,indicating that the image compression algorithm based on the mask hybrid coding for ROI(ROI-MHC)is capable of improving the reconstruction quality of an ROI image.When the weighing factor r is a fixed value,as the proportion of ROI(a)increases,the quality of ROI image reconstruction gradually decreases.Therefore,upon the application of the ROI-MHC image compression algorithm,high-quality reconstruction of the ROI image can be achieved through dynamically configuring r according to a.Under the same bit rate,the quality of the ROI-MHC image compression is higher than that of current compression algorithms of same classes and offers promising application opportunities.展开更多
基金This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60372066)
文摘Small storage space for photographs in formal documents is increasingly necessary in today＇s needs for huge amounts of data communication and storage. Traditional compression algorithms do not sufficiently utilize the distinctness of formal photographs. That is, the object is an image of the human head, and the background is in unicolor. Therefore, the compression is of low efficiency and the image after compression is still space-consuming. This paper presents an image compression algorithm based on object segmentation for practical high-efficiency applications. To achieve high coding efficiency, shape-adaptive discrete wavelet transforms are used to transformation arbitrarily shaped objects. The areas of the human head and its background are compressed separately to reduce the coding redundancy of the background. Two methods, lossless image contour coding based on differential chain, and modified set partitioning in hierarchical trees （SPIHT） algorithm of arbitrary shape, are discussed in detail. The results of experiments show that when bit per pixel （bpp）is equal to 0.078, peak signal-to-noise ratio （PSNR） of reconstructed photograph will exceed the standard of SPIHT by nearly 4dB.
文摘Currently,in multimedia and image processing technologies, implementing special kinds of image manipulation operations by dealing directly with the compressed image is a work worthy to be concerned with. Theoretical analysis and experiment haVe indicated that some kinds of image processing works can be done very well by dealing with compressed image. In Ans paper, we give some efficient image manipulation operation algorithms operating on the compressed image data. These algorithms have advantages in computing complexity, storage space retirement and image quality.
基金support provided by the Natural Science Fundation of Jiangsu Province:Youth Fund(Grant No.BK20170727)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.KYGX201703)the Natural Science Fundation of Jiangsu Province:Youth Fund(Grant No.BK20150686).
文摘To achieve high-quality image compression of a floral canopy,a region of interest(ROI)mask of the wavelet domain was generated through the automatic identification of the canopy ROI and lifting the bit-plane of the ROI to obtain priority of coding for the ROI-set partitioning in hierarchical trees(ROI-SPIHT)coding.The embedded zerotree wavelet(EZW)coding was conducted for the background(BG)region of the image and a relatively more low-frequency wavelet coefficient was obtained using a relatively small amount of coding.Through the weighing factor r of the ROI coding amount,the proportion of the ROI and BG coding amount was dynamically adjusted to generate embedded,truncatable bit streams.Despite the location of truncation,the image information and ROI mask information required by the decoder can be guaranteed to achieve high-quality compression and reconstruction of the image ROI.The results indicated that under the same bit rate,the larger the r value is,the larger the peak-signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)for the ROI reconstructed image and the smaller the PSNR for the BG reconstructed image.In the range of 0.07-1.09 bpp,the PSNR of the ROI reconstructed image was 42.65%higher on average than that of the BG reconstructed image,43.95%higher on average than that of the composite image of the ROI and BG(ALL),and 16.84%higher on average than that of the standard SPIHT reconstructed image.Additionally,the mean square error of the quality evaluation index and similarity for the ROI reconstructed image were both better than those for the BG,ALL,and standard SPIHT reconstructed images.The texture distortion of the ALL image was smaller than that of the SPIHT reconstructed image,indicating that the image compression algorithm based on the mask hybrid coding for ROI(ROI-MHC)is capable of improving the reconstruction quality of an ROI image.When the weighing factor r is a fixed value,as the proportion of ROI(a)increases,the quality of ROI image reconstruction gradually decreases.Therefore,upon the application of the ROI-MHC image compression algorithm,high-quality reconstruction of the ROI image can be achieved through dynamically configuring r according to a.Under the same bit rate,the quality of the ROI-MHC image compression is higher than that of current compression algorithms of same classes and offers promising application opportunities.
