Lossy-to-Lossless Compression of Images Based on Binary Tree Decomposition
Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves · 2006
A new lossy-to-lossless quality-progressive method for image coding is presented. This method is based on binary tree decomposition and context-based arithmetic coding. Experimental results obtained with the eighteen 8-bit ISO images show that the proposed method attains an average lossless compression gain of 7.9% with respect to JPEG2000. Compared to JPEG-LS, the compression gain is 3.1%, but this compression standard does not allow lossy-to-lossless decoding.