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Region-based Spectral Correlation Estimator for Color Image Coding

컬러 영상 부호화를 위한 영역 기반 스펙트럴 상관 추정기

  • Kwak, Noyoon (Division of Information and Communication Engineering, Baekseok University)
  • Received : 2016.12.15
  • Accepted : 2016.12.31
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

This paper is related to the Region-based Spectral Correlation Estimation(RSCE) coding method that makes it possible to achieve the high-compression ratio by estimating color component images from luminance image. The proposed method is composed of three steps. First, Y/C bit-plane summation image is defined using normalized chrominance summation image and luminance image, and then the Y/C bit-plane summation image is segmented for extracting the shape information of the regions. Secondly, the scale factor and the offset factor minimizing the approximation square errors between luminance image and R, B images by the each region are calculated. Finally, the scale factor and the offset factor for the each region are encoded into bit stream. Referring to the results of computer simulation, the proposed method provides more than two or three times higher compression ratio than JPEG/Baseline or JPEG2000/EBCOT algorithm in terms of bpp needed for encoding two color component images with the same PSNR.

본 논문은 휘도 성분 영상으로부터 컬러 성분 영상들을 추정 부호화함으로써 높은 압축률을 달성할 수 있는 영역 기반 스펙트럴 상관 추정 부호화 방법에 관한 것이다. 제안된 방법은 3단계로 구성되어 있다. 우선, 정규 색차합 영상과 휘도 영상을 이용해 산출한 Y/C 비트 평면합 영상을 대상으로 영상 분할을 수행하여 영역들의 형상 정보를 추출한다. 이후, 각 영역 단위로 휘도 영상과 R, B 영상 간의 근사화 자승 오차가 최소가 되도록 하는 비례 인자와 가감 인자를 산출한다. 최종적으로, 각 영역의 비례 인자와 가감 인자를 비트스트림으로 부호화한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과에 따르면, 제안된 방법은 동일한 PSNR에서 두 칼라 성분 영상을 부호화하기 위해 소요되는 bpp를 비교할 때, JPEG/베이스라인 혹은 JEPG2000/EBCOT 알고리즘에 비해 2배 혹은 3배 이상의 압축률을 제공한다.

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