A hybrid approach of wavelet packet and directional decomposition for image compression.

In this paper, a novel image compression technique, the combination of wavelet packet transform and directional decomposition is proposed. Wavelet packet transform is an increasingly remarkable image compression approach that outperforms the standard wavelet transform in image coding. The directional filtering coding technique, one of the second-generation image coding techniques, first introduced the concept of directional decomposition. By placing emphasis on edge detection to preserve edge information to exploit the fact that human visual systems are more sensitive to image edge features, a relatively high compression ratio can be obtained. The approach proposed in this paper decomposed an image into a low-frequency component and a number of highfrequency components, with the edges on each high-frequency component in its own direction. By a combined process of Cartesian coordinate rotation transform, interpolation, wavelet packet transform, and a coding algorithm, the image can be reconstructed at an improved visual quality at the same bit rate compared with the common wavelet pyramid algorithm. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol 12, 51–55, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ima.10010 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]