Transmission of the Region of Interest in Images Using Wavelet Transform

웨이브렛 변환을 이용한 관심영역의 부호화

  • 이수종 (협성대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 이완주 (용인대학교 컴퓨터정보학과) ;
  • 김용규 (성결대학교 정보통신공학부)
  • Published : 2007.09.25

Abstract

Region-of-Interest is the region within the image selected for the users needs. The development of multimedia has made the expectation of image telecommunication higher, but the usage of the image, image transmission time, and image storage create problems. When transmitter or the receiver stops transmission at some point, we can still see the general image and the ROI maintains better image quality if the ROI is specified beforehand. In this paper, three methods are proposed and constructed for the transmission of ROI. In the first method, the ROI and the background are separated and then encoded as described above. The second method is to encode without separating the ROI and the background. The masked region is scaled and the coefficients are increased, then the region is transmitted first. The third method is the loseless coding of the ROI. For loseless coding, real number tap cannot be restored perfectly due to the rounding error, so the method of using integers is used. The proposed method shows a better performance than EZW even in case of ROI's PSNR at quality of 40 dB.

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