<p>In many scientific, medical and defense applications of image/video compression, an <em>l</em><sub>∞ </sub>error bound is required. However, pure <em>l</em><sub>∞</sub>-optimized image coding, colloquially known as near-lossless image coding, is prone to structured errors such as contours and speckles if the bit rate is not sufficiently high; moreover, previous <em>l</em><sub>∞</sub>-based image coding methods suffer from poor rate control. In contrast, the <em>l</em><sub>2</sub> error metric aims for average fidelity and hence preserves the subtlety of smooth waveforms better than the <em>l</em><sub>∞</sub> error metric and it offers fine granularity in rate control; but pure <em>l</em><sub>2</sub>-based image coding methods (e.g., JPEG 2000) cannot bound individual errors as <em>l</em><sub>∞</sub>-based methods can. This thesis presents a new compression approach to retain the benefits and circumvent the pitfalls of the two error metrics.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/12744 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Chuah, Sceuchin |
| Contributors | Wu, Xiaolin, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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