Wavelet-Based Image Compression

Elec 301 Final Project

Sarah Betz, Nirav Bhagat, Paul Murphy and Maureen Stengler

WAVELET PRIMER
WAVELET-BASED COMPRESSION THEORY
PROCEDURE AND IMPLEMENTATION
ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHM
CONCLUSION AND COMPARISON WITH JPEG-2000 COMPRESSION STANDARD
CREDITS

Results:

Original Image

3400:1 Compression

140:1 Compression

27:1 Compression

10:1 Compression

5:1 Compression



Our project seeks to compress images using wavelets as the basis functions. The particular wavelet we used, the Deslauriers set of functions. We discuss how successful our compression algorithm was, and discuss ways of improvement. We also compare the JPEG-2000 compression algorithm with our own.