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Efficient high-performance implementation of JPEG-LS encoder

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A new design approach to create an efficient high-performance JPEG-LS encoder is proposed in this paper. The proposed implementation compresses the image data with the lossless mode of JPEG-LS. When the acquisition of precious content (image) is specified to occur in real-time, then lossless compression is essential. Lossless compression is important to critical applications, such as the acquisition of medical images and transmission of high-definition high-resolution images from space (satellite). The contribution of the paper is to introduce an efficient pipelined JPEG-LS encoder, which requires significantly lower encoding time than any other available JPEG-LS hardware or software implementation. The experimental results show that encoding is performed as expected in high-speed, being able to serve real-time applications. This is the first time that a JPEG-LS implementation offers such a high-speed encoding.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Markos E. Papadonikolakis, Athanasios P. Kakarountas & Costas E. Goutis

  2. Patras Science Park, Rio-Patras, Greece

    Athanasios P. Kakarountas

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Papadonikolakis, M.E., Kakarountas, A.P. & Goutis, C.E. Efficient high-performance implementation of JPEG-LS encoder. J Real-Time Image Proc 3, 303–310 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-008-0088-7

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