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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2010.15.1.133

Quadtree Image Compression Using Edge-Based Decomposition and Predictive Coding of Leaf Nodes  

Jang, Ho-Seok (School of Electrical Eng., Kookmin University)
Jung, Kyeong-Hoon (School of Electrical Eng., Kookmin University)
Kim, Ki-Doo (School of Electrical Eng., Kookmin University)
Kang, Dong-Wook (School of Electrical Eng., Kookmin University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.15, no.1, 2010 , pp. 133-143 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a quadtree image compression method which encodes images efficiently and also makes unartificial compressed images. The proposed compression method uses edge-based quadtree decomposition to preserve the significant edge-lines, and it utilizes the predictive coding scheme to exploit the high correlation of the leaf node blocks. The simulation results with $256\times256$ grayscale images verify that the proposed method yields better coding efficiency than the JPEG by about 25 percents. The proposed method can provide more natural compressed images as it is free from the ringing effect in the compressed images which used to be in the images compressed by the fixed block based encoders such as the JPEG.
Keywords
Edge-Based Quadtree Decomposition; Image Compression;
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