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This paper presents a new approach for improving the visual quality of the lowpass band of a compensated wavelet transform. A high quality of the lowpass band is very important as it can then be used as a downscaled version of the original…
For the lossless compression of dynamic 3-D+t volumes as produced by medical devices like Computed Tomography, various coding schemes can be applied. This paper shows that 3-D subband coding outperforms lossless HEVC coding and additionally…
Scalable lossless video coding is an important aspect for many professional applications. Wavelet-based video coding decomposes an input sequence into a lowpass and a highpass subband by filtering along the temporal axis. The lowpass…
As the demand for digital information grows in fields like medicine, remote sensing, and archival, efficient image compression becomes crucial. This paper focuses on lossless image compression, vital for managing the increasing volume of…
Medical applications like Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Tomography (MRT) often require an efficient scalable representation of their huge output volumes in the further processing chain of medical routine. A downscaled…
For scalable coding, a high quality of the lowpass band of a wavelet transform is crucial when it is used as a downscaled version of the original signal. However, blur and motion can lead to disturbing artifacts. By incorporating feasible…
In this paper, we propose a lossless data hiding scheme in JPEG images. After quantified DCT transform, coefficients have characteristics that distribution in high frequencies is relatively sparse and absolute values are small. To improve…
An efficient scalable data representation is an important task especially in the medical area, e.g. for volumes from Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Tomography (MRT), when a downscaled version of the original signal is…
Professional applications like telemedicine often require scalable lossless coding of sensitive data. 3-D subband coding has turned out to offer good compression results for dynamic CT data and additionally provides a scalable…
Due to their high resolution, dynamic medical 2D+t and 3D+t volumes from computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance tomography (MR) reach a size which makes them very unhandy for teleradiologic applications. A lossless scalable…
Early works on medical image compression date to the 1980's with the impetus on deployment of teleradiology systems for high-resolution digital X-ray detectors. Commercially deployed systems during the period could compress 4,096 x 4,096…
The paper introduces the idea of non-uniform quantization in the detail components of wavelet transformed image. It argues that most of the coefficients of horizontal, vertical and diagonal components lie near to zeros and the coefficients…
This work proposes to augment the lifting steps of the conventional wavelet transform with additional neural network assisted lifting steps. These additional steps reduce residual redundancy (notably aliasing information) amongst the…
Due to the increasing requirements for transmission of images in computer, mobile environments, the research in the field of image compression has increased significantly. Image compression plays a crucial role in digital image processing,…
Especially in lossless image coding the obtainable compression ratio strongly depends on the amount of noise included in the data as all noise has to be coded, too. Different approaches exist for lossless image coding. We analyze the…
A huge advantage of the wavelet transform in image and video compression is its scalability. Wavelet-based coding of medical computed tomography (CT) data becomes more and more popular. While much effort has been spent on encoding of the…
Lossless image compression is required in various applications to reduce storage or transmission costs of images, while requiring the reconstructed images to have zero information loss compared to the original. Existing lossless image…
JPEG images can be further compressed to enhance the storage and transmission of large-scale image datasets. Existing learned lossless compressors for RGB images cannot be well transferred to JPEG images due to the distinguishing…
Transformations for enhancing sparsity in the approximation of color images by 2D atomic decomposition are discussed. The sparsity is firstly considered with respect to the most significant coefficients in the wavelet decomposition of the…
JPEG XL is a practical approach focused on scalable web distribution and efficient compression of high-quality images. It provides various benefits compared to existing image formats: 60% size reduction at equivalent subjective quality;…