Haar Wavelet Transform Image Compression Using Various Run Length Encoding Schemes

Abstract

Image compression is a very important useful technique for efficient transmission as well as storage of images. The demand for communication of multimedia data through the telecommunication network and accessing the multimedia data through internet by utilizing less bandwidth for communication is growing explosively. Basically the image data comprise of significant portion of multimedia data and they occupy maximum portion of communication bandwidth for multimedia communication. Therefore the development of efficient image compression technique is quite necessary. The 2D Haar wavelet transform along with Hard Thresholding and Run Length Encoding is one of the efficient proposed image compression technique. JPEG2000 is a standard image compression method capable of producing very high quality compressed images. Conventional Run Length Encoding(CRLE),Optimized Run Length Encoding(ORLE),Enhanced Run Length Encoding(ERLE) are different types of RLES applied on both proposed method of compression and JPEG2000. Conventional Run Length Encoding produces efficient result for proposed method whereas Enhanced Run Length Encoding produces efficient result in JPEG2000 compression. This is the novel approach that the authors have proposed for compression of image using compression ratio (CR) without losing the PSNR, quality of image using lesser bandwidth.