영상의 웨이브렛 변환계수의 통계적 성질에 근거를 둔 벡터 양자화기의 설계법

Vector-Quantizer design based on statistical characteristics of wavelet transformed images

This paper propose a new vector-quantizer design method for coefficients of wavelet transformed images. In conventional wavelet transform, it is quite often to employ wavelet transformed coefficients, not containing images to be encoded, as training sequences for designing a vector-quantizer. This method has a serious drawback ; it is not known how to find a proper set of training images. This paper investigates characteristics of images that should be considered in the design of vector-quantizers for wavelet transformed images. Besides the statistical parameters such as correlation and standard deviation, edge components are shown to characterise wavelet transform images. Training sequences established in accordance with the above knowledge are used in the design of quantizers having guaranteed range of applicable images. Results of computer simulations are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.