R-D optimized tree-structured compression algorithms with discrete directional wavelet transform (Q935788)

A new image coding method based on discrete directional wavelet transform (S-WT) like in [\textit{V. Velisavljevic, B. Beferull-Lozano, M. Vetterli} and \textit{P. L. Dragotti}, ``Directionlets: anisotropic multidirectional representation with separable filtering'', IEEE Trans. Image Process. 15, No. 7 (2006)] and quad-tree decomposition is proposed in the paper. Since the directional property in a small region is more regular than in a big block generally, in order to sufficiently make use of the multidirectionality and directional vanishing moment of S-WT, the input image is quad-tree segmented with R-D optimization. After the optimal quad-tree is obtained by means of the embedded property of SPECK, a resource bit allocation algorithm is fast implemented utilizing the model proposed in [\textit{M. Rajpoot}, ``Model based optimal bit allocation'', IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2004, Proceedings, DCC 2004.19]. As experimental results indicate the proposed algorithms perform better compared to some state-ot-the-art image coders.