A Unified Coding Algorithm of Lossless and Near-Lossless Color Image Compression

Takayuki NAKACHI  Tatsuya FUJII  Junji SUZUKI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E83-A   No.2   pp.301-310
Publication Date: 2000/02/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Intelligent Signal and Image Processing)
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Keyword: 
lossless compression,  near-lossless compression,  still color images,  color transform,  super high definition images,  

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Summary: 
This paper describes a unified coding algorithm for lossless and near-lossless color image compression that exploits the correlations between RGB signals. A reversible color transform that removes the correlations between RGB signals while avoiding any finite word length limitation is proposed for the lossless case. The resulting algorithm gives higher performance than the lossless JPEG without the color transform. Next, the lossless algorithm is extended to a unified coding algorithm of lossless and near-lossless compression schemes that can control the level of the reconstruction error on the RGB plane from 0 to p, where p is a certain small non-negative integer. The effectiveness of this algorithm was demonstrated experimentally.