Multiesolutional Image Representation and Coding Using Morphological Pyramids
Rong-Jian Chen and Bin-Chang Chieu# Department of Electronic Engineering National Lienho Collage of Technology and Commerce Miao Li, Taiwan, ROC #Department of Electronic Engineering National Taiwan Institute of Technology Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
In this paper, we present an efficient and multiresolutional image representation scheme in which the input images are decomposed and represented as morphological pyramids. An input image is first decomposed into a morphological lowpass pyramid by using morphological filters. A morphological bandpass pyramid is then built by taking the difference between successive levels in the lowpass pyramid. Finally, a vector quantization is applied to each level of the morphological bandpass pyramid to achieve progressive transmission. Examples of images are presented to show the effectiveness of this coding system.