Image Compression with Embedded Multiwavelet Coding

An embedded image coding scheme using the multiwavelet transform and inter-subband prediction is proposed in this research. The new proposed coding scheme consists of the following building components: GHM multiwavelet transform, prediction across subbands, successive approximationquantization, and adaptive binary arithmetic coding. Our major contribution is the introduction of a set of prediction rules to fully exploit the correlations between multiwavelet coe cients in di erent frequency bands. The performance of the proposed new method is comparable to that of state-of-the-art wavelet compression methods.