High-fidelity image compression with nearly lossless arithmetic coding
Houng-Jyh M. Wang, C.‐C. Jay Kuo · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1996
In this work, we investigate the nearly lossless image compression technique, which provides a better compression ratio than purely lossless compression schemes and has a better reconstructed image quality than lossy ones. In particular, we introduce a new idea called the soft decision quantization and integrate it with the binary arithmetic QM coder. The superior performance of the developed algorithm is demonstrated with numerical experiments.