Wavelet-based Scalable L-infinity-oriented Coding
Alin Adrian Alecu · 2004
Abstract—Among the different classes of coding techniques proposed in literature, predictive schemes have proven their outstanding performance in near-lossless compression. However, these schemes are incapable of providing embedded-ori-ented compression, or, at most, provide a very limited number of potential bit-stream truncation points. We propose a new multidimensional wavelet-based-constrained scalable coding framework that generates a fully embedded-oriented bit stream and that retains the coding performance and all the scalability options of state-of-the-art 2-oriented wavelet codecs. Moreover, our codec instantiation of the proposed framework clearly outperforms JPEG2000 in coding sense. Index Terms—L-infinite norm, scalability, wavelet coding. I.