Compressed domain indexing of losslessly compressed images

Gerald Schaefer

doi:10.1117/12.451118

19 December 2001 Compressed domain indexing of losslessly compressed images

Gerald Schaefer

Proceedings Volume 4676, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2002; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.451118
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Image retrieval and image compression have been pursued separately in the past. Only little research has been done on a synthesis of the two by allowing image retrieval to be performed directly in the compressed domain of images without the need to uncompress them first. In this paper methods for image retrieval in the compressed domain of losslessly compressed images are introduced. While most image compression techniques are lossy, i.e.\ discard visually less significant information, lossless techniques are still required in fields like medical imaging or in situations where images must not be changed due to legal reasons. The algorithms in this paper are based on predictive coding methods where a pixel is encoded based on the pixel values of its (already encoded) neighborhood. The first method is based on an understanding that predictively coded data is itself indexable and represents a textural description of the image. The second method operates directly on the entropy encoded data by comparing codebooks of images. Experiments show good image retrieval results for both approaches.

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Gerald Schaefer "Compressed domain indexing of losslessly compressed images", Proc. SPIE 4676, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2002, (19 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.451118

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