The Flow Of Image Compression Coding

Image compression coding is to store the image into bit-stream as compact as possible and to display the decoded image in the monitor as exact as possible. Now consider an encoder and a decoder as shown in Fig. 1.3. When the encoder receives the original image file, the image file will be converted into a series of binary data, which is called the bit-stream. The decoder then receives the encoded bit-stream and decodes it to form the decoded image. If the total data quantity of the bit-stream is less than the total data quantity of the original image, then this is called image compression. The full compression flow is as shown in Fig. 1.3.

THE FLOW OF IMAGE COMPRESSION CODING

In order to evaluate the performance of the image compression coding, it is necessary to define a measurement that can estimate the difference between the original image and the decoded image. Two common used measurements are the Mean Square Error (MSE) and the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), which are defined in (1.3) and (1.4), respectively. f(x,y) is the pixel value of the original image, and f’(x,y)is the pixel value of the decoded image. Most image compression systems are designed to minimize the MSE and maximize the PSNR.

THE FLOW OF IMAGE COMPRESSION CODING
THE FLOW OF IMAGE COMPRESSION CODING

The general encoding architecture of image compression system is shown is Fig. 1.4. The fundamental theory and concept of each functional block will be introduced in the following sections.

THE FLOW OF IMAGE COMPRESSION CODING
THE FLOW OF IMAGE COMPRESSION CODING