Wavelet encoding method and apparatus and wavelet decoding method and apparatus

摘要

A wavelet encoding method and apparatus and a wavelet decoding method and apparatus for pictures. A input picture is split into plural tile pictures and wavelet transform is applied to input pictures on the tile picture basis to effect the encoding. For wavelet transform, pixels lying on the outer side of a given tile picture are symmetrically expanded and convolved. This enables marked memory capacity reduction, while eliminating constraint conditions for the number of times of wavelet splitting.