This document proposes an efficient VLSI architecture for 3D discrete wavelet transform (DWT) using the lifting scheme. The lifting scheme implementation of DWT has lower area, power consumption and computational complexity compared to convolution-based DWT. The proposed architecture achieves reductions in total area and power compared to existing convolution DWT and discrete cosine transform architectures. It evaluates the performance in terms of area analysis, timing reports, and output matrices after 1D, 2D and 3D DWT using both convolution and lifting schemes. The results show that the lifting scheme provides better compression performance with less area and delay.