The Laplacian pyramid (LP) is appropriate for lossy image compression; conversely, the reduced-difference pyramid (RDP), having as many data as pixels, gives a better performance with lossless encoding. In this letter, a reduced LP is designed by discarding the anti-aliasing filter and adopting a half-band interpolator, thus retaining three over four of the LP coefficients. Lossless coding outperforms both LP and RDP, especially when dealing with medical images.

A Reduced Laplacian Pyramid for Lossless and Progressive Image Communication

Bruno Aiazzi;Luciano Alparone;Stefano Baronti
1996

Abstract

The Laplacian pyramid (LP) is appropriate for lossy image compression; conversely, the reduced-difference pyramid (RDP), having as many data as pixels, gives a better performance with lossless encoding. In this letter, a reduced LP is designed by discarding the anti-aliasing filter and adopting a half-band interpolator, thus retaining three over four of the LP coefficients. Lossless coding outperforms both LP and RDP, especially when dealing with medical images.
1996
Istituto di Fisica Applicata - IFAC
Lossless compression
progressive transmission
Laplacian pyramid
half-band interpolation
reduced-difference pyramid
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