Near-lossless transform and wavelet compression or transient DPCM
Vinay A. Vaishampayan · 2002
We consider the problem of reducing the peak distortion of transform/wavelet compression schemes. A new coding scheme called transient DPCM (T-DPCM) is developed. It is shown that T-DPCM has the same asymptotic (in rate) mean squared-error (MSE) performance as the transform or wavelet compression system it is derived from (for an appropriate model). Further, it is shown that T-DPCM has significantly smaller peak distortion than the corresponding transform/wavelet coder. Results are provided for synthetic source models and for the image 'Lena'.