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A Low-Complexity Image Compression Method Which Reduces Memories Used in Multimedia Processor Implementation  

Jung Su-Woon (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim I-Rang (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee Dong-Ho (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.41, no.1, 2004 , pp. 9-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents an efficient image compression method for memory reduction in multimedia processor which can be simply implemented in hardware and provides high performance. The multimedia processor, which includes processing of high-resolution images and videos, requires large memories: they are external frame memories to store frames and internal line memories for implementing some linear filters. If we can reduce those memories by adopting a simple compression method in multimedia processor, it will strengthen its cost competitiveness. There exist many standards for efficiently compressing images and videos. However, those standards are too complex for our purpose and most of them are 2-D block-based methods, which do not support raster scanned input and output. In this paper, we propose a low-complexity compression method which has good performance, can be implemented with simple hardware logic, and supports raster scan. We have adopted 1${\times}$8 Hadamard transform for simple implementation in hardware and compression efficiency. After analyzing the coefficients, we applied an adaptive thresholding and quantization. We provide some simulation results to analyze its performance and compare with the existing methods. We also provide its hardware implementation results and discuss about cost reduction effects when applied in implementing a multimedia processor.
Keywords
Multimedia; Image Compression; JPEG; DTV;
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