Abstract

Images require substantial storage and transmission resources, thus image compression is
advantageous to reduce these requirements. The report covers some background of wavelet
analysis, data compression and how wavelets have been and can be used for image compression.
An investigation into the process and problems involved with image compression was made and
the results of this investigation are discussed. It was discovered that thresholding was had an
extremely important influence of compression results so suggested thresholding strategies are
given along with further lines of research
that could be undertaken.

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FIGURE 3.1 BLOCK DIAGRAM OF DWT 14

FIGURE 4.1 GRAY SCALE IMAGE 16

FIGURE 5.1 BLOCK DIAGRAM 2D WAVELET ANALYSIS 21

FIGURE 5.2 2D DECOMPOSITION OF SATURN IMAGE TO LEVEL 1 21

FIGURE 5.3 LEVEL 3 IMAGE 22

FIGURE 6.1 IMAGE COMPORESSION SYSTEMN 24

FIGURE 7.1 WAVELET DECOMPOSITION 29

FIGURE 7.2 3 LEVEL WAVELET DECOMPOSITION FOR 2D DWT 30

FIGURE 7.3 HAAR WAVELET 33

FIGURE 7.4 DAUBECHIS WAVELET 34

FIGURE 9.1 HAAR WAVELET 39

FIGURE 9.2 DAUBECHIS WAVELET 40

FIGURE 9.3 BIORTHOIGONAL WAVELET 40

FIGURE 9.4 MEYER WAVELET 40

FIGURE 9.5 SPREAD OF COEFFICIENTS 41

FIGURE 10.1 RELATION BETWEEN WAVELET COEFFICIENTS 46

IN SUBBAND AS QUAD TREE

FIGURE 10.2 DIFFERENT SCANNING PATTERNS FOR SCANNING 46

WAVELET COEFFICIENTS

FIGURE 11.1 ORIGINAL IMAGE 56

FIGURE 11.2 COMPRESSED IMAGE 56

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TABLE 11.1 TABULATED VALUES OF COMPRESSION RATIO 57

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