Image Compression Techniques Research Articles

A High-Throughput Processor for GDN-Based Deep Learning Image Compression

Deep learning-based image compression techniques can take advantage of the autoencoder’s benefits to achieve greater compression quality at the same bit rate as traditional image compression, which is more in line with user desires. Designing a high-performance processor that can increase the inference speed and efficiency of the deep learning image compression (DIC) network is important to make this technology more extensively employed in mobile devices. To the best of our knowledge, there is no dedicated processor that can accelerate DIC with low power consumption, and general-purpose network accelerators based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) cannot directly process compressed networks, so we propose a processor suitable for DIC in this paper. First, we analyze the image compression algorithm and quantize the data of the network into 16-bit fixed points using a dynamic hierarchical quantization. Then, we design an operation module, which is the core computational part for processing. It is composed of convolution, sampling, and normalization units, which pipeline the inference calculation for each layer of the network. To achieve high-throughput inference computing, the processing elements group (PEG) array with local buffers is developed for convolutional computation. Based on the common components in encoding and decoding, the sampling and normalization units are compatible with codec computation and utilized for image compression with time-sharing multiplexing. According to the control signal, the operation module could change the order of data flow through the three units so that they perform encoding and decoding operations, respectively. Based on these design methods and schemes, DIC is deployed into the Xilinx Zynq ZCU104 development board to achieve high-throughput image compression at 6 different bit rates. The experimental results show that the processor can run at 200 MHz and achieve 283.4 GOPS for the 16 bits fixed-point DIC network.

Rancang Bangun Aplikasi Monitoring Kegiatan MBKM & Prestasi Mahasiswa Menggunakan Algoritma Lempel ZIV Welch (LZW) untuk Kompresi Citra Digital

The MBKM (Merdeka Learning Kampus Merdeka) activity is part of the Merdeka Learning policy which allows students and lecturers to carry out various activities outside the campus. This study aims to design an application for monitoring MBKM activities and student achievement at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Kuningan. The application development model used in this study is a prototyping model with stages: needs analysis, building prototyping, evaluating prototyping, system coding and using the system. In the process of storing evidence of MBKM activity documentation such as MBKM photos & certificates of achievement & MBKM, an image compression technique is needed to streamline data storage and transmission which saves bandwidth and storage, image file compression techniques are applied using the LZW algorithm (Lempel Ziv Welch) so that data file storage is more efficient. efficiently without reducing image quality. The results of this study are an application for monitoring MBKM activities and student and lecturer achievements that aim to document & evaluate MBKM activities & achievements at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Kuningan, making it easier to report MBKM activities and lecturer & student achievements.

Preliminary analysis of noisy image lossy compression by discrete atomic transform-based coder

Remote sensing provides data (images) important for many modern applications. Image number and average size tend to increase. This makes their transfer via communication lines, storage, and dissemination problematic. Thus, compression should be applied where lossy compression is mostly used. Most methods of lossy compression assume that images do not contain noise. Meanwhile, images are often noisy, and this should be considered in the design and performance analysis of image compression techniques. Lossy compression has already been studied by several coders. However, it has not been investigated for the recently proposed atomic transform-based techniques that possess several advantages, in particular, the ability to provide privacy of compressed data. The main subject of this paper is the peculiarities of noisy image lossy compression by an atomic transform-based coder. Our goal is to analyze whether the considered compression method provides the noise filtering effect and the so-called optimal operation point. The task is to obtain rated distortion curves for the atomic transform-based coder applied to noisy images and to analyze their behavior for several performance characteristics such as quality metrics and compression ratio. In the first order, the monotonicity of the main dependence is of interest. The main results are as follows. First, it is shown that the dependencies have non-monotonic behavior and the appearance of analogs of optimal operation point is possible, at least, for such metric as maximal absolute error. Second, there is a specific dependence of compression ratio on a parameter called UBMAD that controls compression. Experiments have been performed on several noisy test images having different complexity and contaminated by noise of different intensities. In conclusion, it is demonstrated that one more coder might have optimal operation points for images having a rather simple structure. However, at the moment, it is difficult to predict its existence and the corresponding coder parameters.

Advanced Image Compression Techniques for Medical Applications: Survey

The field of artificial intelligence has grown significantly in the past decade, with deep learning being a particularly promising technique due to its ability to learn complex feature representations from data. One area where deep learning has shown promise is in image compression, which is important for applications such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and video streaming. Traditional compression methods such as JPEG, JPEG200 and PNG have been used for decades, but recent advances in deep learning have led to innovative techniques that involve training deep neural networks to learn a compressed representation of the image data. This survey paper focuses on research-based applications of deep learning in image compression and reviews recent works on using deep learning techniques to compress and accelerate deep neural networks, including pruning, quantization, and low-rank factorization methods. In addition, we discuss the use of deep learning techniques to minimize compression defects, such as block artifacts and ringing, which can degrade image quality. The paper provides an overview of popular methods and recent works in the field, highlighting their characteristics, advantages, and shortcomings. We also discuss challenges and open research questions, such as the trade-off between compression efficiency and reconstruction quality, and the need for standardized evaluation metrics for comparing different compression methods. Overall, this survey aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of current trends in image compression using deep learning techniques and their potential to revolutionize the field. By exploring the advantages and limitations of these methods, we hope to facilitate further research and development in this exciting area.

FitDepth: fast and lite 16-bit depth image compression algorithm

This article presents a fast parallel lossless technique and a lossy image compression technique for 16-bit single-channel images. Nowadays, such techniques are “a must” in robotics and other areas where several depth cameras are used. Since many of these algorithms need to be run in low-profile hardware, as embedded systems, they should be very fast and customizable. The proposal is based on the consideration of depth images as surfaces, so the idea is to split the image into a set of polynomial functions that each describes a part of the surface. The developed algorithm herein proposed can achieve a similar—or better—compression rate and especially higher speed rates than the existing techniques. It also has the potential of being fully parallelizable and to run on several cores. This feature, compared to other approaches, makes it useful for handling and streaming multiple cameras simultaneously. The algorithm is assessed in different situations and hardware. Its implementation is rather simple and is carried out with LIDAR captured images. Therefore, this work is accompanied by an open implementation in C++.

HYBRID SCHEMES BASED ON WAVELET TRANSFORM AND CONVOLUTIONAL AUTO-ENCODER FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION

In recent years, image compression techniques have received a lot of attention from researchers as the number of images at hand keep growing. Digital Wavelet Transform is one of them that has been utilized in a wide range of applications and has shown its efficiency in image compression field. Moreover, used with other various approaches, this compression technique has proven its ability to compress images at high compression ratios while maintaining good visual image quality. Indeed, works presented in this paper deal with mixture between Deep Learning algorithms and Wavelets Transformation approach that we implement in different color spaces. In fact, we investigate RGB and Luminance/Chrominance YCbCr color spaces to develop three image compression models based on Convolutional Auto-Encoder (CAE). In order to evaluate the models’ performances, we used 24 raw images taken from Kodak database and applied the approaches on every one of them and compared achieved experimental results with those obtained using standard compression method. We draw this comparison in terms of performance parameters: Structural Similarity Index Metrix SSIM, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio PSNR and Mean Square Error MSE. Reached results indicates that with proposed schemes we gain significate improvement in distortion metrics over traditional image compression method especially SSIM parameter and we managed to reduce MSE values over than 50%. In addition, proposed schemes output images with high visual quality where details and textures are clear and distinguishable.

Review on Fractal Video and Image Compression Techniques

Compression of images process is a step in the image processing. It is concerned with the transmission and storage of digitally created images. Fractal coding is a potential image and video compression approach with good reconstruction fidelity and relatively large compression ratios, because of its simplicity and great performance; fractal image compression (FIC) is a particularly popular approach in image compression applications. However, it has a significant disadvantage in the form of a long encoding time. This is because encoding any small bit necessitates a massive similarity search in the original data As a result; the FIC search time is reduced while the quality of the reconstructed images is maintained acceptable level in many introduced paper and other still a study topic in progress. Fractal images are images that are self-similar in that each individual part is the same as the total. This paper will discusses many attempts for more author that working on image and video compression using fractal compression technique based on various approach and with each discuss focuses on the main parameter of compression such compression ratio (CR), peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and encoding time, as well as the details of data set the used for testing also writing with each technique to creating fractal video and image compression. Index Terms— FIC, Video compression, parallel processing, Iteration Function System (IFS), Image processing.

Image Compression Techniques on-Board Small Satellites

Raw satellite images are considered high in resolution, especially multispectral images captured by remote sensing satellites. Hence, choosing the suitable compression technique for such images should be carefully considered, especially on-board small satellites, due to the limited resources. This paper presents an overview and classification of the major and state-of-the-art compression techniques utilized in most space missions launched during the last few decades, such as the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)-based compression techniques. The pros and cons of the onboard compression methods are presented, giving their specifications and showing the differences among them to provide unified information about these methods for researchers and satellite imaging payload designers. Hence, some of these techniques are implemented, and comparisons are presented in the current work as examples to simulate an image compression system on board a small satellite using the MATLAB software package. This was achieved by employing three LANDSAT8, band6 satellite images. A wavelet selection was also considered for the DWT-based compression method, which gave the best results among the other methods through acquiring high values of compression ratio (CR) while maintaining the important scientific information of the image when reconstructed at the ground station.

On classifier performance for remote sensing images compressed by different coders

Remote sensing data are widely used in numerous applications. A conventional task solved using remote sensing images is their classification. The classification maps are commonly produced by some pre-trained classifiers applied either to uncompressed or compressed images where lossy compression is often needed and employed in practice due to the necessity to reduce data volume at stages of image transfer and storage. Then, the classification accuracy depends on the characteristics of an image, a classifier, and a coder used. The main subject of this paper is the factors that determine classification accuracy. One of them is compressed image quality. We fix the quality of compressed image quality characterized by the peak signal-to-noise ratio for several coders and rely on the same training approach. Our goal is twofold. First, we would like to consider classification accuracy for two approaches to classifier training: based on undistorted data and images with simulated distortions. Second, our desire is to compare the performance of different techniques of image compression. The task of this paper is to obtain an idea is it worth training the neural network classifier for uncompressed images or images of similar quality to the quality of compressed data to be classified. The coder’s influence on classification results is of special interest as well. The main results are the following. First, the classification accuracy is almost the same for classifiers trained for uncompressed and simulated compressed data for the general distortion model. Second, there is a certain difference in the classification results for different compression techniques studied. Lightly better classification results are observed for data produced by more sophisticated (modern) coders. Experiments have been carried out for two real-life three-channel Sentinel-2 images of Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region having different complexity. Four typical classes have been considered. As a conclusion, it is possible to state that either the general model of distortions must be modified or the classifier training should be performed for data produced by the corresponding compression technique.

Generative Adversarial and Dual Layered Deep Classification Techniques for Improving Block Constructions in Public Cloud

This paper provides the Generative Adversarial and Dual Layered Deep Classification techniques to improve the drawbacks in the methods of Absolute Moment BTC (AMBTC) technique in reconstruction error rate of standard BTC model. The image blocks generation and compression are the main phases of BTC model. This can be applied for both colour images and grey scale images. However, the conventional BTC procedures lacks for edge reconstructions and noise reductions in the output images. The first technique GABTC is developed with multi-layered Deep Neural Network (DNN) structures with GA neural models. The integration of both GA models and BTC principles improve the quality of block constructions and reconstructions significantly. The second proposed work is adopted the Dual layered Deep Classification Technique. Handling the image database with minimal storage complexity, minimal computational complexity and optimal quality is a significant task. To obtain these solutions, many image processing techniques are evolved. In the domain, image compression and decompression are more needed at any cost for effectively handling the complex image databases. E-Learning resources are widely used around the internet based knowledge sharing environments. In the E-Learning environment, multiple types of data resources are managed. Particularly, organizing the images is more crucial task where multiple qualities of images are appeared inside the E-Learning network databases. This problem expects solutions from effective image compression techniques. Block Truncation Coding (BTC) and Absolute Moment BTC (AMBTC) are the techniques provide useful and easy implementations of E-Learning based image compression platform. At the same time, they are limited to image dissimilarity rate. To maintain the quality of images in both compression and decompression phases, multilevel image analysis models and training phases are required. In this regard, this proposed system develops a Dual Layered Deep Classification and Truncation (DLDCT) technique. DLDCT comprises the baseline benefits of BTC, multi-layered Support Vector Machine (SVM) units and Deep Layered Convolutional Neural Network (DLCNN) for producing classified range of image pixels and compressing the images under controlled circumstances. This proposed DLDCT makes the image compression and decompression with determined observations. This reduces real time errors occur during image reconstruction phases. This proposed system has been implemented and compared with existing works with respect to significant performance parameters.

Compression of Virtual Learning Images Based on Lossy and Lossless in Cloud Environment

This paper provides a comprehensive introduction to digital image, image compression and overview of E-learning. It presents the basic concepts and features of image compression techniques with different measuring qualities of image in the cloud environment for better storage space.

Scalable Color Quantization for Task-centric Image Compression

Conventional image compression techniques targeted for the perceptual quality are not generally optimized for classification tasks using deep neural networks (DNNs). To compress images for DNN inference tasks, recent studies have proposed task-centric image compression methods with quantization techniques optimized for DNN inference. Among them, color quantization was proposed to reduce the amount of data per pixel by limiting the number of distinct colors (color space) in an image. However, quantizing images into various color space sizes requires training and inference of multiple DNNs, each of which is dedicated to each color space. To overcome this limitation, we propose a scalable color quantization method, where images with variable color space sizes can be extracted from a master image generated by a single DNN model. This scalability is enabled by weighted color grouping that constructs a color palette using critical color components for the classification task. We also propose an adaptive training method that can jointly optimize images with various color-space sizes. The results show that the proposed method supports dynamic changes of the color space size between 1–6 bit color space per pixel, while even increasing the inference accuracy at a low bit precision up to 20.2% and 46.6% compared to other task- and human-centric color quantizations, respectively.

Tuna Swarm Optimization with 3D-chaotic map and DNA encoding for image encryption with lossless image compression based on FPGA

Images and video-based multimedia data are growing rapidly due to communication network technology. During image compression and transmission, images are inevitably corrupted by noise due to the influence of the environment, transmission channels, and other factors, resulting in the damage and degradation of digital images. Numerous real-time applications, such as digital photography, traffic monitoring, obstacle detection, surveillance applications, automated character recognition, etc are affected by this information loss. Therefore, the efficient and safe transmission of data has become a vital study area. In this research, an image compression–encryption system is proposed to achieve security with low bandwidth and image de-noising issues during image transmission. The Chevrolet transformation is proposed to improve image compression quality, reduce storage space, and enhance de- noising. A 3D chaotic logistic map with DNA encoding and Tuna Swarm Optimization is employed for innovative image encryption. This optimization approach may significantly increase the image's encryption speed and transmission security. The proposed system is built using the Xilinx system generator tool on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Experimental analysis and experimental findings show the reliability and scalability of the image compression and encryption technique designed. For different images, the security analysis is performed using several metrics and attains 32.33 dB PSNR, 0.98 SSIM, and 7.99721 information entropy. According to the simulation results, the implemented work is more secure and reduces image redundancy more than existing methods.

Image segmentation techniques using python and deep learning

Computer vision is one of the most important technology emerging in the IT market. Computer vision is a way to provide a powerful ability to see and interpret the real-time objects to the computer just like us or possibly even better than us. An image segmentation is the key processes in machine vision. It is the method of separate a high quality picture into non-overlapping multiple regions to get more precise and significant result. This technique provide us much more granular and reliable information about images like shape, color, and texture, etc. Image segmentation makes a huge impression in Image compression or Object detection techniques, Content-based image retrieval, Video surveillance, Medical imaging, and Traffic control system, etc. It is efficient to process small segments of images one by one to gather information and renounce the regions without information than to process an entire image for particular information. So, image segmentation is help us to dividing image into small segments for advance processing. We can divide a digital image using properties of images such as pixel values, intensity value, texture, shape, etc. So, we can achieve image segmentation by segmenting the images based on these properties. There are many techniques through which one can achieve image segmentation. Here, we discussed multiple techniques apply to achieve image segmentation and compare their benefits and drawbacks followed by the conclusion.

Optimized Block-Based Lossy Image Compression Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks

Optimized Block-Based Lossy Image Compression Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks

Segmentation-Less Extraction of Text and Non-Text Regions From JPEG 2000 Compressed Document Images Through Partial and Intelligent Decompression

JPEG 2000 is a popular image compression technique that uses Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for compression and subsequently provides many rich features for efficient storage and decompression. Though compressed images are preferred for archival and communication purposes, their processing becomes difficult due to the overhead of decompression and re-compression operations which are needed as many times the data needs to operate. Therefore in this research paper, the novel idea of direct operation over the JPEG 2000 compressed documents is proposed for extracting text and non-text regions without using any segmentation algorithm. The technique avoids full decompression of the compressed document in contrast to the conventional methods, where they fully decompress and then process. Moreover, JPEG 2000 features are explored in this research work to partially and intelligently decompress only the selected regions of interest at different resolutions and bitdepths to accomplish segmentation-less extraction of text and non-text regions. Finally Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) algorithm is used to extract the layout of segmented text and non-text regions for further analysis. Experiments have been carried out on the standard PRImA Layout Analysis Dataset leading to promising results and saving computational resources.

Comparison of lossy image compression techniques

Comparison of lossy image compression techniques

Comparison of lossy image compression techniques

Comparison of lossy image compression techniques

Retracted: Manta Ray Foraging Optimization with Vector Quantization Based Microarray Image Compression Technique.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/7140552.].

Adaptive Polynomial Coding of Multi-base Hybrid Compression

With increasing demand for the intensive use of images, especially linked to online applications as well as the massive, continuous revolution of mobile phone technology, the need has emerged for efficient, standard image compression techniques that ensure simplicity and speed. These must be compatible with user needs, but also meet the challenges of improving compression techniques. Polynomial coding is one such techniques still under development, based on a modelling concept of deterministic and probabilistic coding bases. This paper introduces a new mathematical iterative polynomial model to represent both coding bases. The model proposes an efficient hybrid way where coefficients are represented as lossless while residuals are presented as a lossy but with minimum loss, which ensures effective performance in terms of compression ratios and quality. Results show that while the technique has some limitations, the proposed system achieves equivalent compression ratios as the standard JPEG technique, but with superior quality for the same compression ratio.