Digital image compression using wavelets and wavelet packets based on nonstationary and inhomogeneous multiresolution analyses
Andreas Uhl · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1994
Unlike the classical wavelet decomposition scheme it is possible to have different scaling and wavelet functions at every scale by using non-stationary multiresolution analyses. For the bidimensional case inhomogeneous multiresolution analyses using different scaling and wavelet functions for the two variables are introduced. Beyond it, these two methods are combined. All this freedom is used for compact image coding. The idea is to build out of the functions in a library that special non-stationary and/or inhomogeneous multiresolution analysis, that is best suited for a given image in the context of compact coding (in the sense of optimizing certain cost-functions).