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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2008.12.4.707

A Ranking Method for Improving Performance of Entropy Coding in Gray-Level Images  

You, Kang-Soo (전주대학교 교양학부)
Sim, Chun-Bo (순천대학교 정보통신공학부)
Abstract
This paper proposes an algorithm for efficient compression gray-level images by entropy encoder. The issue of the proposed method is to replace original data of gray-level images with particular ranked data. For this, first, before encoding a stream of gray-level values in an image, the proposed method counts co-occurrence frequencies for neighboring pixel values. Then, it replaces each pay value with particularly ranked numbers based on the investigated co-occurrence frequencies. Finally, the ranked numbers are transmitted to an entropy encoder. The proposed method improves the performance of existing entropy coding by transforming original gray-level values into rank based images using statistical co-occurrence frequencies of gray-level images. The simulation results, using gray-level images with 8-bits, show that the proposed method can reduce bit rate by up to 37.85% compared to existing conventional entropy coders.
Keywords
Gray-Level Images; Ranking Method; Entropy Coding;
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