A high–performance SPIHT–based image and video codec for surveillance. (22nd April 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mohanty, Bibhuprasad; Verma, Pramod Kumar; Mahapatra, Sudipta
• Is Part Of: International journal of signal and imaging systems engineering. Volume 6:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 75
• Page End: 82
• Publication Date: 2013-04-22
• Subjects: zero shifting -- set partitioning -- hierarchical trees -- SPIHT codec -- video codec -- surveillance -- pre–processing -- transformed coefficients -- visual quality -- wavelets -- image codec; Signal processing -- Periodicals; Imaging systems -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 621.3822
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1748-0698

Abstract

A novel extension to wavelet transformed image and video codec based on SPIHT is presented for the purpose of surveillance where the detail information regarding a scene is not an essential requirement. A pre–processing scheme, called Zero–Shifting, has been proposed using which calculation of transformed coefficients becomes more consistent. This modification leads to a significantly higher PSNR and better visual quality at a specific bit rate with little additional computational complexity. We achieved 1.5–4.2 dB more gain at the lowest possible bit rate without using entropy coder, which provides only 0.3–0.6 dB increase in gain at the cost of higher computational complexity and reduced speed of the SPIHT codec.