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Memory Efficient Scalable Line-based Image Coding

Ordentlich, Erik; Taubman, David; Weinberger, Marcelo; Seroussi, Gadiel; Marcellin, Michael

HPL-1999-1

Keyword(s): embedded image compression; wavelet transform; skew coder; Golomb coder; low memory; bit-plane coding

Abstract: We study the problem of memory efficient scalable image compression and investigate some tradeoffs in the complexity vs. coding efficiency space. The focus is on a low-complexity algorithm centered around the use of sub-bit-planes, scan-causal modeling, and a simplified arithmetic coder. This algorithm approaches the lowest possible memory usage for scalable wavelet- based image compression and demonstrates that the generation of a scalable bit-stream is not incompatible with a low-memory architecture.

12 Pages

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