The two mast cameras, Mastcams, onboard Mars rover Curiosity are multispectral imagers with nine bands in each. Currently, the images are compressed losslessly using JPEG, which can achieve only two to three times of ...The two mast cameras, Mastcams, onboard Mars rover Curiosity are multispectral imagers with nine bands in each. Currently, the images are compressed losslessly using JPEG, which can achieve only two to three times of compression. We present a comparative study of four approaches to compressing multispectral Mastcam images. The first approach is to divide the nine bands into three groups with each group having three bands. Since the multispectral bands have strong correlation, we treat the three groups of images as video frames. We call this approach the Video approach. The second approach is to compress each group separately and we call it the split band (SB) approach. The third one is to apply a two-step approach in which the first step uses principal component analysis (PCA) to compress a nine-band image cube to six bands and a second step compresses the six PCA bands using conventional codecs. The fourth one is to apply PCA only. In addition, we also present subjective and objective assessment results for compressing RGB images because RGB images have been used for stereo and disparity map generation. Five well-known compression codecs, including JPEG, JPEG-2000 (J2K), X264, X265, and Daala in the literature, have been applied and compared in each approach. The performance of different algorithms was assessed using four well-known performance metrics. Two are conventional and another two are known to have good correlation with human perception. Extensive experiments using actual Mastcam images have been performed to demonstrate the various approaches. We observed that perceptually lossless compression can be achieved at 10:1 compression ratio. In particular, the performance gain of the SB approach with Daala is at least 5 dBs in terms peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) at 10:1 compression ratio over that of JPEG. Subjective comparisons also corroborated with the objective metrics in that perceptually lossless compression can be achieved even at 20 to 1 compression.展开更多
Hyperspectral images (HSI) have hundreds of bands, which impose heavy burden on data storage and transmission bandwidth. Quite a few compression techniques have been explored for HSI in the past decades. One high perf...Hyperspectral images (HSI) have hundreds of bands, which impose heavy burden on data storage and transmission bandwidth. Quite a few compression techniques have been explored for HSI in the past decades. One high performing technique is the combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and JPEG-2000 (J2K). However, since there are several new compression codecs developed after J2K in the past 15 years, it is worthwhile to revisit this research area and investigate if there are better techniques for HSI compression. In this paper, we present some new results in HSI compression. We aim at perceptually lossless compression of HSI. Perceptually lossless means that the decompressed HSI data cube has a performance metric near 40 dBs in terms of peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) or human visual system (HVS) based metrics. The key idea is to compare several combinations of PCA and video/ image codecs. Three representative HSI data cubes were used in our studies. Four video/image codecs, including J2K, X264, X265, and Daala, have been investigated and four performance metrics were used in our comparative studies. Moreover, some alternative techniques such as video, split band, and PCA only approaches were also compared. It was observed that the combination of PCA and X264 yielded the best performance in terms of compression performance and computational complexity. In some cases, the PCA + X264 combination achieved more than 3 dBs than the PCA + J2K combination.展开更多
文摘The two mast cameras, Mastcams, onboard Mars rover Curiosity are multispectral imagers with nine bands in each. Currently, the images are compressed losslessly using JPEG, which can achieve only two to three times of compression. We present a comparative study of four approaches to compressing multispectral Mastcam images. The first approach is to divide the nine bands into three groups with each group having three bands. Since the multispectral bands have strong correlation, we treat the three groups of images as video frames. We call this approach the Video approach. The second approach is to compress each group separately and we call it the split band (SB) approach. The third one is to apply a two-step approach in which the first step uses principal component analysis (PCA) to compress a nine-band image cube to six bands and a second step compresses the six PCA bands using conventional codecs. The fourth one is to apply PCA only. In addition, we also present subjective and objective assessment results for compressing RGB images because RGB images have been used for stereo and disparity map generation. Five well-known compression codecs, including JPEG, JPEG-2000 (J2K), X264, X265, and Daala in the literature, have been applied and compared in each approach. The performance of different algorithms was assessed using four well-known performance metrics. Two are conventional and another two are known to have good correlation with human perception. Extensive experiments using actual Mastcam images have been performed to demonstrate the various approaches. We observed that perceptually lossless compression can be achieved at 10:1 compression ratio. In particular, the performance gain of the SB approach with Daala is at least 5 dBs in terms peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) at 10:1 compression ratio over that of JPEG. Subjective comparisons also corroborated with the objective metrics in that perceptually lossless compression can be achieved even at 20 to 1 compression.
文摘Hyperspectral images (HSI) have hundreds of bands, which impose heavy burden on data storage and transmission bandwidth. Quite a few compression techniques have been explored for HSI in the past decades. One high performing technique is the combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and JPEG-2000 (J2K). However, since there are several new compression codecs developed after J2K in the past 15 years, it is worthwhile to revisit this research area and investigate if there are better techniques for HSI compression. In this paper, we present some new results in HSI compression. We aim at perceptually lossless compression of HSI. Perceptually lossless means that the decompressed HSI data cube has a performance metric near 40 dBs in terms of peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) or human visual system (HVS) based metrics. The key idea is to compare several combinations of PCA and video/ image codecs. Three representative HSI data cubes were used in our studies. Four video/image codecs, including J2K, X264, X265, and Daala, have been investigated and four performance metrics were used in our comparative studies. Moreover, some alternative techniques such as video, split band, and PCA only approaches were also compared. It was observed that the combination of PCA and X264 yielded the best performance in terms of compression performance and computational complexity. In some cases, the PCA + X264 combination achieved more than 3 dBs than the PCA + J2K combination.
