CS4670  Digital Image Compression

Syllabus

Overview:    Digital image formation, information theory concepts, and fundamental lossless and lossy image compression techniques including predictive coding, transform coding, variable length coding, subband/wavelet coding, bit plane coding, JPEG and JPEG2000 image coding standards.

Textbook:    Shi and Sun
    Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering (Fundamentals, Algorithms and Standards)
    CRC Press 2000    
        
Prerequisites:    CS 203

Topics:    1. Information theoretic background            (1 week)
    2. Quantization                    (1 week)
    3. Differential coding                    (1 week)
    3. Transform coding                    (1 week)
    4. Variable length coding                (2 weeks)
    5. Run-length and dictionary coding            (2 weeks)
    6. JPEG - still image coding standard            (2 weeks)
    7. Wavelet transform coding                (2 weeks)
    8. JPEG2000 image coding standard            (1 week)

Prepared by:    Wenjun Zeng

Date:    September 2004

Covers digital image formation, information
theory concepts, and fundamental lossless and
lossy image compression techniques including
bit plane encoding, predictive coding, trans-
form coding, block truncation coding, vector
quantization, subband coding and hierarchical
coding. Prererequisite: CS 2050.