Sparse representation based down-sampling image compression

Abstract: In this paper, we give an analytical model of the compression error of down-sampled compression based on wavelet transform, which explains why down-sampling before compression can improve coding performance. And we approximate the missing details due to down-sampling and compression by using the linear combination of a set of basis vectors with norm. Then we propose a down-sampled and high frequency information approximated coding scheme and apply it to natural images, and achieve gains of both subjective quality and objective quality compared with JPEG2000. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]