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MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 56, 2016
2016 8th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE 2016)
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Article Number | 02007 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Image Processing and Application | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20165602007 | |
Published online | 26 April 2016 |
k-d Tree-Segmented Block Truncation Coding for Image Compression
1 Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Katipunan Ave, Quezon City, Philippines
2 University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College, Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines
Block truncation coding (BTC) is a class of image compression algorithms whose main technique is the partitioning of an image into pixel blocks that are then each encoded using a representative set of pixel values. It is commonly used because of its simplicity and low computational complexity. The Quadtree-segmented BTC (QTS-BTC), which utilizes a dynamic hierarchical segmentation technique, is among the most efficient in the BTC class. In this study, we propose a new BTC variant that introduces two ideas: (1) the use of a k-d tree for segmentation and (2) the use of a Mean Squared Error (MSE) threshold for dynamically determining the granularity of the blocks. We refer to this new BTC variant as the k-d Tree Segmented BTC (KTS-BTC), and we test this against some of the existing BTC variants by running the algorithms on a standard image compression dataset. The results show that the proposed variant yields low bit rates of the compressed images, even outperforming the state-of-the-art QTS-BTC, without a significant reduction in image quality as measured using the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR). The utilization of k-d tree for image segmentation is further shown to have more impact than that of employing the MSE thresholding scheme as a block activity classifier.
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