Image Compression
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IMAGE COMPRESSSION USING LIFTING BASED
DESCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM
V.BALAKRISHNAN , STUDENT, FINAL YEAR ECE
R.JEBARAJ, STUDENT , FINAL YEAR ECE.
ABSTRACT
This paper proposes an efficient VLSI architecture for implementation
of 2-D lifting-based discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The whole architecture
was optimized in efficient pipeline and parallel design way to speed up and
achieve higher hardware utilization. The prediction step and updation step using
the same architecture, which reduced the size of the circuit. Exploited
embedded mirror symmetric boundary extension technique to optimize the
architecture for 1-D DWT. The architecture was coded in system c,
implemented in a FPGA, and verified by a real-time platform which comprises
a FPGA and a PC. Finally we try to reduce the complexity level up to 50 % in
this attempt. In this face recognition system which has wide range of application
in various field the over all output of this face recognition system will be
mainly depends on the image compression quality.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Introduction
Standard application of Wavelet Transform which uses floating-point
arithmetic means redundant processing which requires very complicated
processing architecture and so it is very time-consuming. Most of the processing
stages can be omitted or simplified using an adaptation to the integer arithmetic
processing. In most cases it is possible to apply the transform using only integer
addition and bit shifting operations. This can result in ultra-fast processing
especially when implemented into FPGA Recently the lifting scheme (LS) [1]
has become a revolutionary framework for efficient computation of the DWT.
The main advantages offered by LS lie in its better computational
efficiency and in its improved modular structure, well suitable for scalable
hardware implementation. Moreover, it has also been demonstrated [2] the
feasibility of perfectly lossless Wavelet Transform, which is able to map integer
numbers into integer coefficients. This paper goal is to investigate novel and
efficient VLSI designs for the lifting algorithm. In order to reduce complexity
for lossy compression, we design rational lifting coefficients for Daubechies
(9,7) filters. The rational coefficients allow the integer execution units to be
implemented. In addition, based on the proposed rational lifting algorithms, we
present an efficient FPGA implementation for the lifting scheme in order to
fully satisfy different possible requirements.
In fact the proposed architecture is well suitable for real-time
applications, form very low bit rate to high definition environments.
Lifting Wavelet Transform
Sweldens first introduced the concept of second generation wavelet,
which is the so-called lifting scheme. Comparing with traditional Mallat
Construction of WT, the lifting scheme is completely based on construction in
spatial domain and dose not depend on the concept of translates and dilates and
also does not require any tools of frequency analysis, which main idea is
founded on the theory of bi-orthogonal wavelets and perfect reconstruction filter
bank. Daubechies and Sweldens proved that any wavelet with FIR filters can be
factorized into a finite number of lifting steps and all of the conventional WT
based on Mallat algorithm may find their equivalent lifting scheme [4].
Lifting scheme
Generally, lifting scheme is composed of three steps: Split/Merge,
Prediction and Update [5]. Let denotes input signals.
The general lifting algorithm is described as follow [2].
1. Splitting
The input signals, Xi are separated into two sets of even and
odd samples.
2. Prediction
The odd samples are predicted by linear interpolation using coefficients.
3. Update
The even samples are updated with coefficient Un (k).
The prediction step and the update step may be performed in N substeps. The number of sub-steps N nd the values of Pn(k) and Un(k) are
depended on wavelet filters.
4. Normalization
Low pass and high pass outputs must be normalized to get the correct
results. Thus,
Then the next transform step can
be performed, but only using the low-
frequency component just as WT. The reconstruction of LWT is an inverse
process of decomposition. The lifting scheme of decomposition and
reconstruction for 1-D signal is illustrated in Fig.1
1.Reconstruction for 1-D signal
FPGA Design
The proposed architecture in this section for the partitioned 2D-DWT
mainly consists of two one dimensional DWT units (1D-DWT) for horizontal
and vertical transforms, a control unit realized as a finite state machine, and an
internal memory block. For illustration see Fig 3. To process a sub-image, all
rows are transferred to the FPGA over the PCI bus and transformed on the fly in
the horizontal 1D-LWT unit using pipelining. The coefficients computed in this
way are stored in internal memory of different types. The coefficients
corresponding to the rows of the subimage itself are stored in single port RAM.
Now the vertical transform levels can take place. This is done by the vertical
1D-LWT unit [8]. The control unit coordinates these steps in order to process a
whole subimage and is responsible for generating enable signals, address lines,
and so on.
At the end, the wavelet transformed sub-image is available in the internal
RAM.
Fig .2
To implement one level of DWT using the lifting method, the following
steps are necessary: split the input into coefficients at odd and even positions,
perform a predict-step and update-step. An efficient realization of the last two
steps is given in Fig .4. The computation is split into the elementary pieces,
which are additions, subtractions, and shifts. With the given arrangement, the
combinational function between two flip-flops fits into one column of CLBs.
Furthermore the registered adder/subtracters generated by logic block are
configured such that the dedicated carry logic in the XC4000 series is used.
Fig .3 PREDICTION
Fig .4 UPDATION
In order to perform a faster transform, which is needed during the first
and second level, the w-bit input 1DDWT has to be parallelized. One approach
is to process four rows in parallel but we have to take into account the growing
chip area. Another disadvantage is the fact that we have to split the RAM into
four slices, where each slice corresponds to a w-bit input 1DDWT. This results
in additional data and address lines and slows down the access time to the
RAM. As a direct consequence of this, the order of the data transfered to the
FPGA has to be adapted accordingly. To avoid the disadvantages just mentioned
we have implemented a filter unit which takes four pixels of the same row at a
time. Instead of 12 w-bit and 12 w+1-bit flip-flops, 4 predict and update units
we only need 4 w-bit and 5 w + 1-bit flip-flops and 2 predict and update
components, if the bit-width of the input coefficients/pixels is w. We use this
unit for both the first and the second level of the transform.
Simulation Result
1. ORIGINAL IMAGE
2. EIRST LEVEL DECOMPOSITION RESULT
]
3. SECOND LEVEL DECOMPOSITION RESULT
4. COMPRESSED IMAGE
CONCLUSION
In this paper, a lifting based architecture which is called a 2×2 array is proposed
to take advantage of all the parallelisms effectively. For an N×N DWT, our
architecture takes only N2/4+N/2+1 time units while maintain the memory
requirement to only 3N+2. The advantages of lifting scheme are less operations,
in-place computation, and less memory requirement. At the same time, the
coefficients computed using lifting scheme are identical with the convolutional
implementation. The new fully integer processing of the wavelet transform
scheme compression enables a very fast application and thus it can be very
useful in the application in real-time systems. The most important property of
this concept is the possibility of a simple and fast application into FPGA or
ASIC chip. And also we have developed a FPGA-based implementation.
FUTURE WORK
Here we completed image compression for face recognition system; in
future we are going to perform video compression using the same platform.
Also, perform pre-processing steps such as lighting correction, Histogram
equalization both for video and image compression.
REFRENCES
[1] S. Mallat, A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing. New York:
Academic, 1998.
[2] R. R. Coifmen and M. V. Vickerhauser, “Entropy-based
algorithms for best basis selection,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol.
38, no. 3, pp. 713–718, Mar. 1992.
[3] Z. Xiong, K. Ramchandran, and M. T. Orchad, “Wavelet
packet image coding using space-frequency quantization,” IEEE
Trans. Image Processing, vol. 7, pp. 160–174, 1998.
[4] D. Sinha and A. H. Tewfik, “Lowbit rate transparent audio
compression using adapted wavelets,” IEEE Trans. Signal
Process., vol. 41, no. 12,pp. 3463–3479, Dec. 1993.
[5] X. Wu, Y. Li, and H. Chen, “Programmable wavelet packet transform
processor”.
DESCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM
V.BALAKRISHNAN , STUDENT, FINAL YEAR ECE
R.JEBARAJ, STUDENT , FINAL YEAR ECE.
ABSTRACT
This paper proposes an efficient VLSI architecture for implementation
of 2-D lifting-based discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The whole architecture
was optimized in efficient pipeline and parallel design way to speed up and
achieve higher hardware utilization. The prediction step and updation step using
the same architecture, which reduced the size of the circuit. Exploited
embedded mirror symmetric boundary extension technique to optimize the
architecture for 1-D DWT. The architecture was coded in system c,
implemented in a FPGA, and verified by a real-time platform which comprises
a FPGA and a PC. Finally we try to reduce the complexity level up to 50 % in
this attempt. In this face recognition system which has wide range of application
in various field the over all output of this face recognition system will be
mainly depends on the image compression quality.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Introduction
Standard application of Wavelet Transform which uses floating-point
arithmetic means redundant processing which requires very complicated
processing architecture and so it is very time-consuming. Most of the processing
stages can be omitted or simplified using an adaptation to the integer arithmetic
processing. In most cases it is possible to apply the transform using only integer
addition and bit shifting operations. This can result in ultra-fast processing
especially when implemented into FPGA Recently the lifting scheme (LS) [1]
has become a revolutionary framework for efficient computation of the DWT.
The main advantages offered by LS lie in its better computational
efficiency and in its improved modular structure, well suitable for scalable
hardware implementation. Moreover, it has also been demonstrated [2] the
feasibility of perfectly lossless Wavelet Transform, which is able to map integer
numbers into integer coefficients. This paper goal is to investigate novel and
efficient VLSI designs for the lifting algorithm. In order to reduce complexity
for lossy compression, we design rational lifting coefficients for Daubechies
(9,7) filters. The rational coefficients allow the integer execution units to be
implemented. In addition, based on the proposed rational lifting algorithms, we
present an efficient FPGA implementation for the lifting scheme in order to
fully satisfy different possible requirements.
In fact the proposed architecture is well suitable for real-time
applications, form very low bit rate to high definition environments.
Lifting Wavelet Transform
Sweldens first introduced the concept of second generation wavelet,
which is the so-called lifting scheme. Comparing with traditional Mallat
Construction of WT, the lifting scheme is completely based on construction in
spatial domain and dose not depend on the concept of translates and dilates and
also does not require any tools of frequency analysis, which main idea is
founded on the theory of bi-orthogonal wavelets and perfect reconstruction filter
bank. Daubechies and Sweldens proved that any wavelet with FIR filters can be
factorized into a finite number of lifting steps and all of the conventional WT
based on Mallat algorithm may find their equivalent lifting scheme [4].
Lifting scheme
Generally, lifting scheme is composed of three steps: Split/Merge,
Prediction and Update [5]. Let denotes input signals.
The general lifting algorithm is described as follow [2].
1. Splitting
The input signals, Xi are separated into two sets of even and
odd samples.
2. Prediction
The odd samples are predicted by linear interpolation using coefficients.
3. Update
The even samples are updated with coefficient Un (k).
The prediction step and the update step may be performed in N substeps. The number of sub-steps N nd the values of Pn(k) and Un(k) are
depended on wavelet filters.
4. Normalization
Low pass and high pass outputs must be normalized to get the correct
results. Thus,
Then the next transform step can
be performed, but only using the low-
frequency component just as WT. The reconstruction of LWT is an inverse
process of decomposition. The lifting scheme of decomposition and
reconstruction for 1-D signal is illustrated in Fig.1
1.Reconstruction for 1-D signal
FPGA Design
The proposed architecture in this section for the partitioned 2D-DWT
mainly consists of two one dimensional DWT units (1D-DWT) for horizontal
and vertical transforms, a control unit realized as a finite state machine, and an
internal memory block. For illustration see Fig 3. To process a sub-image, all
rows are transferred to the FPGA over the PCI bus and transformed on the fly in
the horizontal 1D-LWT unit using pipelining. The coefficients computed in this
way are stored in internal memory of different types. The coefficients
corresponding to the rows of the subimage itself are stored in single port RAM.
Now the vertical transform levels can take place. This is done by the vertical
1D-LWT unit [8]. The control unit coordinates these steps in order to process a
whole subimage and is responsible for generating enable signals, address lines,
and so on.
At the end, the wavelet transformed sub-image is available in the internal
RAM.
Fig .2
To implement one level of DWT using the lifting method, the following
steps are necessary: split the input into coefficients at odd and even positions,
perform a predict-step and update-step. An efficient realization of the last two
steps is given in Fig .4. The computation is split into the elementary pieces,
which are additions, subtractions, and shifts. With the given arrangement, the
combinational function between two flip-flops fits into one column of CLBs.
Furthermore the registered adder/subtracters generated by logic block are
configured such that the dedicated carry logic in the XC4000 series is used.
Fig .3 PREDICTION
Fig .4 UPDATION
In order to perform a faster transform, which is needed during the first
and second level, the w-bit input 1DDWT has to be parallelized. One approach
is to process four rows in parallel but we have to take into account the growing
chip area. Another disadvantage is the fact that we have to split the RAM into
four slices, where each slice corresponds to a w-bit input 1DDWT. This results
in additional data and address lines and slows down the access time to the
RAM. As a direct consequence of this, the order of the data transfered to the
FPGA has to be adapted accordingly. To avoid the disadvantages just mentioned
we have implemented a filter unit which takes four pixels of the same row at a
time. Instead of 12 w-bit and 12 w+1-bit flip-flops, 4 predict and update units
we only need 4 w-bit and 5 w + 1-bit flip-flops and 2 predict and update
components, if the bit-width of the input coefficients/pixels is w. We use this
unit for both the first and the second level of the transform.
Simulation Result
1. ORIGINAL IMAGE
2. EIRST LEVEL DECOMPOSITION RESULT
]
3. SECOND LEVEL DECOMPOSITION RESULT
4. COMPRESSED IMAGE
CONCLUSION
In this paper, a lifting based architecture which is called a 2×2 array is proposed
to take advantage of all the parallelisms effectively. For an N×N DWT, our
architecture takes only N2/4+N/2+1 time units while maintain the memory
requirement to only 3N+2. The advantages of lifting scheme are less operations,
in-place computation, and less memory requirement. At the same time, the
coefficients computed using lifting scheme are identical with the convolutional
implementation. The new fully integer processing of the wavelet transform
scheme compression enables a very fast application and thus it can be very
useful in the application in real-time systems. The most important property of
this concept is the possibility of a simple and fast application into FPGA or
ASIC chip. And also we have developed a FPGA-based implementation.
FUTURE WORK
Here we completed image compression for face recognition system; in
future we are going to perform video compression using the same platform.
Also, perform pre-processing steps such as lighting correction, Histogram
equalization both for video and image compression.
REFRENCES
[1] S. Mallat, A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing. New York:
Academic, 1998.
[2] R. R. Coifmen and M. V. Vickerhauser, “Entropy-based
algorithms for best basis selection,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol.
38, no. 3, pp. 713–718, Mar. 1992.
[3] Z. Xiong, K. Ramchandran, and M. T. Orchad, “Wavelet
packet image coding using space-frequency quantization,” IEEE
Trans. Image Processing, vol. 7, pp. 160–174, 1998.
[4] D. Sinha and A. H. Tewfik, “Lowbit rate transparent audio
compression using adapted wavelets,” IEEE Trans. Signal
Process., vol. 41, no. 12,pp. 3463–3479, Dec. 1993.
[5] X. Wu, Y. Li, and H. Chen, “Programmable wavelet packet transform
processor”.
