Discrete wavelet transform for image compression: a hardware approach

Philip P. Dang; Paul M. Chau

doi:10.1117/12.349430

26 May 1999 Discrete wavelet transform for image compression: a hardware approach

Philip P. Dang, Paul M. Chau

Proceedings Volume 3658, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Display; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.349430
Event: Medical Imaging '99, 1999, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In the last few years, there has been a great deal of effort invested in the fields of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) by the scientific community. DWT associated with vector quantization has been proved to be an invaluable tool for image compression. The DWT, however, is very computationally intensive process. There is a need to investigate innovative and computationally efficient architectures to obtain the image compression in real time. In this paper, we present a novel, robust, and regular architecture to implement the DWT for image compression. Beside the performance, the architecture takes into account data format, power, hardware cost and scalability issues rising form realistic operating conditions.

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Philip P. Dang and Paul M. Chau "Discrete wavelet transform for image compression: a hardware approach", Proc. SPIE 3658, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Display, (26 May 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.349430

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