by Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Ted Chilton, Marc Nunkesser, Sahbi Sidhom, Georges Szajnowski
Abstract:
The report presents a novel approach for image compression using the Hartley transform (HT). The Hartley transform has the advantage of solving the problem of phase wrapping from which the Fourier transform su.ers. The magnitude and phase compression using this transformation (HT) have proved better performance than those of the Fourier Transform. Magnitude and phase were processed separately. The quantization of frequency samples in less bits has increased the compression ratio.Furthermore, the distributions used to generate the noise signi.cantly in.uence the result. The lossy compression technique used seems not to degrade the image quality. A nonlinear filter for smoothing the resulting image would be suitable for image enhancement. In general, the overall compression ratio is acceptable it compresses to about $15-30$ percent the size of the original image. A lossless compression technique could be performed additionally to increase the compression factor.
Reference:
Image Compression using Hartley transform (Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Ted Chilton, Marc Nunkesser, Sahbi Sidhom, Georges Szajnowski), Technical report, PRIP, TU Wien, 2003.
Bibtex Entry:
@TechReport{TR087,
author = "Ahmed Nabil Belbachir and Ted Chilton and Marc
Nunkesser and Sahbi Sidhom and Georges Szajnowski",
title = "Image {C}ompression using {H}artley transform",
institution = "PRIP, TU Wien",
number = "PRIP-TR-087",
year = "2003",
url = "https://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/pripfiles/trs/tr87.pdf",
abstract = "The report presents a novel approach for image
compression using the Hartley transform (HT). The
Hartley transform has the advantage of solving the
problem of phase wrapping from which the Fourier
transform su.ers. The magnitude and phase
compression using this transformation (HT) have
proved better performance than those of the Fourier
Transform. Magnitude and phase were processed
separately. The quantization of frequency samples in
less bits has increased the compression
ratio.Furthermore, the distributions used to
generate the noise signi.cantly in.uence the
result. The lossy compression technique used seems
not to degrade the image quality. A nonlinear filter
for smoothing the resulting image would be suitable
for image enhancement. In general, the overall
compression ratio is acceptable it compresses to
about $15-30$ percent the size of the original
image. A lossless compression technique could be
performed additionally to increase the compression
factor.",
}