Image compression using discrete cosine transform

Image Compression using Discrete Cosine
Transform
BY:
150040799 – SK. SAHIFUDHIN
150040817 – S. MANOJ KUMAR
150040822 – S. GOKUL

Contents
 Introduction
 How Images are formed
 Image Resolution
 Compression
 Image Compression
 Principle of compression
 Data Redundancy
 References

Introduction
 With the wide use of computers and consequently need for large scale storage and
transmission of data
 Dealing with such enormous information can often present difficulties. The purpose
of data compression is to make a file smaller by minimizing the amount of data
present.
 When a file is compressed, it can be reduced to as little as 25% of its' original.

How Images are Formed
 Digital Photography :
Digital photography uses an array of electronic photo-detectors to
capture the image focused by the lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic
film. The captured image is then digitized and stored as a computer file ready for
digital processing, viewing, digital publishing or printing.
 Raw Image Format:
A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the
image sensor of a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw
files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to
be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor

Image Resolution
Image resolution is the detail an image holds. In terms of sensor, it is the
capability of sensor to observe or measure the smallest object clearly with distinct boundaries. The
term applies to raster digital images, film images, and other types of images. Higher resolution
means more image detail. There are four types of image resolution.
 Pixel resolution
 Spatial resolution
 Spectral resolution
 Temporal resolution

Compression
 Compression or bit-rate (no. of bits conveyed per unit of time) reduction involves
encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.
Compression can be either lossy or lossless.
 Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical
redundancy.
 No information is lost in lossless compression. Lossy compression reduces bits by
identifying unnecessary information and removing it.
 Compression is useful because it helps reduce resources usage, such as data
storage space or transmission capacity.
 Because compressed data must be decompressed to use, this extra processing
imposes computational or other costs through decompression.

Lossless Compression:
Lossless data compression is a class of data compression
that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed
Lossless compression is preferred for archival purposes and often for medical
technical drawings, clip art, or comics.
Lossy Compression:
Lossy compression is a data encoding method that compresses
by discarding some of it. The procedure aims to minimize the amount of data that
needs to be held, handled, and/or transmitted by a computer. It permits
reconstruction only of an approximation of the original data, though this usually
for improved compression rates (and therefore smaller sized files).

Image Compression
 Need For Image Compression:
The need for image compression becomes apparent when number
of bits per image is computed resulting from typical sampling rates and quantization
methods. For example, the amount of storage required for given images is
 A low resolution, TV quality, colour video image which has 512 x 512 pixels/color,8
bits/pixel, and 3 colours approximately consists of 6 x106 bits;
 A 24 x 36 mm negative photograph scanned at 12 x 10−6mm: 3000 x 2000
pixels/colour, 8 bits/pixel, and 3 colours nearly contains 144 x 106 bits;

Principles behind Compression
Number of bits required to represent the information in an
image can be minimized by removing the redundancy present in it. There are three
types of redundancies:
 Spatial redundancy, which is due to the correlation or dependence between
neighbouring pixel values.
 Spectral redundancy, which is due to the correlation between different colour
planes or spectral bands.
 Temporal redundancy, which is present because of correlation between different
frames in images. Image compression research aims to reduce the number of bits
required to represent an image by removing the spatial and spectral redundancies
as much as possible.

Data Redundancy
Data redundancy is of central issue in digital image compression. If n1
and n2 denote the number of information carrying units in original and compressed image
respectively ,then the compression ratio CR can be defined as CR=n1/n2.
 And relative data redundancy RD of the original image can be defined as RD=1-1/CR.
 Three possibilities arise here:
 If n1=n2, then CR=1 and hence RD=0 which implies that original image do not contain any
redundancy between the pixels.
 If n1>>n1, then CR→∞ and hence RD>1 which implies considerable amount of redundancy in
the original image.
 If n1<<n2, then CR>0 and hence RD→-∞ which indicates that the compressed image contains
more data than original image.

References
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