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26 October 1999 EZW coding using nonuniform quantization
Che-Yi Yin, Haluk Derin
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Abstract
This paper presents an image coder that modifies the EZW coder and provides an improvement in its performance. The subband EZW image coder uses a uniform quantizer with a threshold (deadzone). Whereas, we know that the distribution/histogram of the wavelet tree subband coefficients, all except the lowest subband, tend to be Laplacian. To accommodate for this, we modify the refining procedure in EZW and use a non-uniform quantizer on the coefficients that better fits their distribution. The experimental results show that the new image coder performs better than EZW.
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Che-Yi Yin and Haluk Derin "EZW coding using nonuniform quantization", Proc. SPIE 3813, Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VII, (26 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366846
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KEYWORDS
Quantization

Image compression

Wavelets

Wavelet transforms

Computer programming

Distortion

Algorithm development

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