Project Proposal

Image Compression using Wavelets

Goal:
The main goal of the project is to get a compressed image using the wavelet analysis.

Summary:-
For the efficient transmission and storage of image signals, compression of image is required. Depending
on the requirement of application lossy or lossless method of compression is used for transmission.
There are number of algorithms available to compress the image. Our algorithm is based on the Wavelet
analysis.
Since, images contain repetitive values of pixels (intensity values), or they change a little, we can
compress same type of information to save bandwidth. This uniformity is more or less depending on the
image, if uniformity of different pixels is in big amount then images are more redundant, and if this
uniformity is less, then it is less redundant. Also, these redundancies can be used as information for
recovering the original image.
In our project compression using wavelet analysis is given. Wavelet analysis is used to divide information
of an image into approximation and detailed sub signals, which shows the general trend of pixel values
and three detail sub signal show vertical, horizontal and diagonal details or changes in the image, often
the time domain signals are needed to be converted in frequency domain for which Fourier transform is
used.

Method of compression:-
General method of compression includes following steps (Image Compression Using Wavelets
Karen Lees May 2002):-
(1) Digitise the source image into a signal s
(2) Decompose the signal s into wavelet coefficients
(3) modify the coefficients from w, using thresholding to a sequence w.
(4) Use quantisation to convert w to q.
(5) Apply entropy encoding to compress q to e.

Project Schedule:-

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