A level-Embedded Lossless Image Compression
Jiang Miao-lin · Journal of Engineering Graphics · 2005
A level-embedded lossless image compression method for continuous-tone still images is presented. Level (bit-plane) scalability is achieved by separating the image into two layers (the base layer and the residual layer) before compression. Excellent compression performance is obtained by exploiting both spatial and inter-level correlations. A comparison of the proposed scheme with a number of scalable and non-scalable lossless image compression algorithms indicates that the level-embedded compression incurs only a small penalty in compression efficiency over non-scalable lossless compression, while offering the significant benefit of level-scalability.