A novel efficient image compression system based on independent component analysis

Abstract

Next generation image compression system should be optimized the way human vision system (HVS) works. HVS has been evolved over millions of years for the images which exist in our environment. This idea is reinforced by the fact that sparse codes extracted from natural images resemble the primary visual cortex of HVS. We have introduced a novel technique in which basis functions trained by Independent Component Analysis (ICA) have been used to transform the image. ICA has been used to extract the independent features (basis functions) which are localized, bandlimited and oriented like HVS and resemble wavelet and Gabor bases. A greedy algorithm named matching pursuit (MP) has been used to transform the image in the ICA domain which is followed by quantization and multistage entropy coding. We have compared our codec with JPEG from the DCT family and JPEG2000 from the wavelets family. For fingerprint images, results are also compared with wavelet scalar quantization (WSQ) codec which has been especially tailored for this type of images. Our codec outperforms JPEG and WSQ and also performs comparable to JPEG2000 with lower complexity than the latter.

A Natural Image Compression Approach Based on ICA and Visual Saliency Detection

“…(2) Calculating the inverse or pseudo inverse of bases matrix, we call the obtained matrix W . (3) Preprocessing the image which is to be compressed. First, divide the image into small square blocks.…”

“…It has already been indicated that images of natural scenes are well modeled when the columns of A , which can be seen as a basis are wavelete-like filters, and the independent sources have heavy-tailed distributions [1] . That is to say, with high probability, only a small fraction of the elements of S have significant values; this sparse nature of S indicates the possibility of using overcomplete ICA to compression and denoising of natural images [1] .In [2,3] , the problem of using ICA for image compression is addressed. The authors of literature [2,3] have presented ICA based image compression system and got a promising performance.…”

“…That is to say, with high probability, only a small fraction of the elements of S have significant values; this sparse nature of S indicates the possibility of using overcomplete ICA to compression and denoising of natural images [1] .In [2,3] , the problem of using ICA for image compression is addressed. The authors of literature [2,3] have presented ICA based image compression system and got a promising performance.…”

A Natural Image Compression Approach Based on Independent Component Analysis and Visual Saliency Detection

“…1 In Refs. [2,3], the problem of using ICA for image compression is addressed. The authors of literature (Refs.…”

“…The authors of literature (Refs. [2,3]) have presented ICA based image compression system and got a promising performance.…”