Gegenständlich adaptiertes Bildkodiersystem.

摘要

An image-coding system reduces image data redundancies and perceptual irrelevancies through progressive sub-band coding. The image is separated into plurality of sub-bands ((0,0) to (3,3)). From this sub-band information, a perceptual metric, based on the properties of the sub-band filters, quantizer error distribution, and properties of the human visual system, is determined (28) which provides the maximum amount of coding noise that may be introduced to each pixel in every sub-band without causing perceptible degradation of the coded image. This perceptual metric is used to adjust the quantizer (25) used in encoding each sub-band signal. In addition, redundancy in the output of the quantizer is reduced using a multidimensional Huffman compression scheme (27).