Improved BTC Using Luminance Bitmap for Color Image Compression
Jun Wang, Kyeong-Yuk Min, Yeun-Cheul Jeung, Jong‐Wha Chong · 2009
Block truncation coding (BTC) is an efficient technology for color image compression. An improved BTC algorithm, luminance bit-map based BTC (LBBBTC), is presented in this paper. The LBB-BTC employs luminance bit-map to represent the three R, G and B bit-maps more exactly. Moreover, by adding 3 bits to indicate the entirely differences between Y and R, G or B bit-maps, respectively, the coding performance is improved obviously. Simulation results show that the proposed LBB-BTC performs as well as the BTC in terms of subject visual quality and PSNR, and significantly improve the compression ratio of BTC.