A Simple Prediction Method for Progressive Image Transmission

Abstract

BPM is a simple and intuitive method to implement the progressive image transmission. However, its reconstructed image quality at each of the beginning stages is not good. In this paper, we propose a simple prediction method to improve the quality of the reconstructed image for BPM at each of the beginning stages. By partitioning the input image into smaller blocks, our method transmits an important part of the pixel information of each block to the receiver in each stage. To reconstruct the whole image, the receiver recovers the missing pixel information in each block by linear prediction based on the transmitted pixel information. The experiment results show that our method can significantly improve the reconstructed image quality at each of the beginning stages compared to the BPM and IBPM proposed previously.