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WAVELET TRANSFORM BASED LATENCY OPTIMIZED IMAGE COMPRESSION FOR

LOW DENSE APPLICATIONS
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.K.Sindhu,2.M.pradeep

M.tech, sindhukodali777@gmail.com, VLSI, Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women

. M.tech (phD), Assoc.Prof,pradeepm999@gmail.com,E.C.E, Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women

ABSTRACT: The main objective of this project is to

the results are not optimal. In lossless compression,

compress an image using advanced wavelet filters.

the data (such as executables, documents, etc.) are

This project involves application of discrete wavelet

compressed such that when decompressed, it gives an

transform (DWT) which has significant advantages

exact replica of the original data. They need to be

over real wavelet transform for certain image

exactly

processing problems. The proposed architecture,

example, the popular PC utilities like Winzip or and

based on new and fast convolution approach, reduces

Adobe Acrobat perform lossless

the hardware complexity in addition to reduce the

compression. Compression can be done in many

critical path to the multiplier delay. Furthermore, an

ways as below mentioned.

advanced two dimensional (2-D) discrete wavelet

Spatial Redundancy is the correlation between

transform (DWT) implementation, with an efficient

neighboring pixel values.

memory area, is designed to produce one output in

Spectral Redundancy is the correlation between

less number of clock cycles.

different color planes or spectral bands.

KEYWORDS: Discrete wavelet transforms (DWT),

Temporal Redundancy is the correlation between

Convolution, Filter, FIFO, Embedded Zero Tree,

adjacent frames in a sequence of images (in video

Entropy, Quantizer.

applications).

INTRODUCTION: of the most used techniques for

reducing the number of bits needed to represent an

image compression and is applied in a large category

image by removing the spatial and spectral

of applications [1]. DWT can provide significant

redundancies. The compression phase is mainly

compression ratios without great loss of visual

divided into three sequential steps: (1) Discrete

quality than the previous techniques such as the

Wavelet Transform, (2)Quantization, and (3) Entropy

Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Discrete

Encoding. After preprocessing, each component is

Fourier Transform (DFT). The DWT present the

independently analyzed by an appropriatediscrete

main part of the JPEG2000 standard, which permits

wavelet transform. For an efficient compression all

both lossy and lossless compression of digital

above techniques are utilized.

images. It allows an

The

encoded image to be

reproduced

Image

computational

when

decompressed.

compression

block

focuses

diagram

of

For

on

the

reconstructed progressively. Image compression is

functionalities of the compression system is shown in

different from binary data compression. When binary

Fig. 1

data compression techniques are applied to images,

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Wavelet-based Compression

Filter

Quantizer

Entropy
Encoder

Digital image is represented as a two-dimensional

array of coefficients, each coefficient representing the
brightness level in that point. Most natural images

Fig1

have smooth color variations, with the fine details

Lifting and convolution present the two computing

being represented as sharp edges in between

approaches to achieve the discrete wavelet transform

the smooth variations. Technically, the smooth

[3].While conventional lifting-based architectures

variations in color can be termed as low frequency

require fewer arithmetic operations compared to the

variations, and the sharp variations as high frequency

convolution-based

variations.

approach

for

DWT,

they

sometimes have long critical paths. IfTa and Tm are

The low frequency components (smooth variations)

the delays of the adder and multiplier, respectively,

constitute the base of an image, and the high

then the critical path of the lifting-based architecture

frequency components (the edges which give the

for the (9,7) filter.

details) add upon them to refine the image, thereby

Principles of Image Compression

giving a detailed image. Hence, the smooth variations

A typical lossy image compression scheme is shown

are more important than the details. Separating the

in Figure 1. The system consists of three main

smooth variations and details of the image can be

components, namely, the source encoder, the

performed in many ways.

quantizer, and the entropy encoder.

decomposition of the image using the discrete

source encoder An encoder is the first major

wavelet transform.

component of image compression system. A variety

The basic difference between wavelet-based and

of linear transforms are available such as Discrete

Fourier-based techniques is that short-time Fourier-

Fourier Transform (DFT), Discrete Cosine Transform

based techniques use a fixed analysis window, while

(DCT), and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). The

wavelet-based techniques can be considered using a

Discrete Wavelet Transform is main focus of our

short window at high spatial frequency data and a

work.

long window at low spatial frequency data. This

Quantizer A quantizer reduces the precision of the

makes DWT more accurate in analyzing image

values generated from the encoder and therefore

signals at different spatial frequency, and thus can

reduces the number of bits required to save the

represent more precisely both smooth and dynamic

transform co coefficients.

regions in image. Wavelet-based image compression

Entropy Encoder An entropy encoder does further

has good compression results in both rate and

compression on the quantized values. This is done to

distortion sense.

achieve even better overall compression. The

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM:

commonly used entropy encoders are the Huffman

One-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform The

encoder, arithmetic encoder, and simple run-length

basic DWT can be realized by convolution-based

encoder.

implementation using the FIR-filters to do the

One way is the

transform. Theinput discrete signal X(n) is filtered by

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a low-pass filter (h) and a high-pass filter (g) at each

Fig.

multi-resolution

transform level. The two output streams are then sub-

decomposition

sampled by simply dropping the alternate output

FAST

samples in each stream to produce the lowpass

WAVELET TRANSFORM ARCHITECTURE:

subband YL and high-pass subband YH. The

There are many implementations of the convolution-

associated equations can be written (1).

based DWT [15]-[18]. A semi-systolic form of a

CONVOLUTION-BASED

wavelet

DISCRETE

VLSI architecture has been proposed by Acharya and

Chen [15]. The proposed architecture, based on new
and

fast

convolution

approach,

presents

an

Fig. 2 shows the signal analysis and reconstruction in

implementation of a very high-speed discrete wavelet

onedimensional (1-D) Discrete Wavelet Transform.

transform with reduced hardware complexity and

memory. The main principle of the architecture can
be applied to implement any symmetric filter. The (9,
7) wavelet filter presents the developed example.
These (9, 7) filter has 9 lowpass filter coefficients h =

Fig. 2 Signal analysis and reconstruction in DWT

Two-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform For
two-dimensional (Image) analysis and reconstruction
the multi-resolution approach for Discrete Wavelet
decomposition of signals using a pyramidal filter
structure proposed by Mallat can be adopted. Fig. 3
shows

the

twolevel

multi-resolution

wavelet

decomposition of signals using pyramidal filter

structure.

{ h-4 , h-3 , h-2 , h-1, ho, h1 , h2 ,h3, h4} and 7

high-pass filter coefficients g = { g-2 , g-1, go, g1, g2
, g3 , g4}. The architecture to compute the YLi and
YHi is shown in Fig. 4. Additional registers are
added, between multipliers and adders, to speed up
the computing. The critical path is reduced to the
multiplier delay (Tcm). Furthermore, the outputs YLi
and YHi are obtained alternately at the trailing edges
of the even and odd clock cycles. (e.g., YL0, YL1,
YL2, .. are obtained at clock cycles 9, 11, 13, . . .
and YH0, YH1, YH2, are obtained at clock cycles
8, 10, 12, .. . respectively).

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RESULT:

The image compression scheme using wavelet

transform consists of the following procedure:
Decomposition of signal using filters

banks.

Down sampling of Output of filter bank.

Quantization of the above.
Finally encoding.
The Embedded Zero tree (EZT) wavelet algorithm
was invented by Shapiro in 1993. Basically a wavelet
transform on an image leads to the formation of sub
bands. The EZT algorithm exploits the self similarity
of coefficients in different wavelet bands. The
algorithm is in such a way that it takes care of the
intermediate quantization process. In this scheme, the
lower rate codes or the averages (LL) are embedded
at the beginning of the bit stream

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[6] J. NEUMANN and G. STEIDL. Dualtree

PARAMETER

EXISTING

PROPOSED

complex wavelet transform in the frequency domain

AREA

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signal

classification.

and Information Processing IJWMIP, 2004.

CONCLUSION: Finally, this project presents a
parallel architecture for very high-speed computing
Discrete Wavelet Transform using SRAM and FIFO
memory. This concept introduced the basic wavelet
theory used for wavelet transform based image
compression. To produce one output in every clock
cycle in addition to reduce the critical path as well as
more efficient memory area, new fast convolutionbased architecture approach is performed. In this
approach, the system stars the column-processing as
soon as sufficient numbers of rows have been
filtered. Two fast convolution based blocks, for the
two-dimensional (2-D) discrete wavelet transform
(DWT), are used to accelerate the computing

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