In this paper, three compression methods, JPEG, JPEG 2000, and Vidware Vision are evaluated by different fulland no-reference objective image quality measures including Peak-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (PSNR), structural similarity (SSIM), and Tenengrad. In the meantime, we also propose an image sharpness measure, non-separable rational function based Tenengrad (NSRT2), to address whether the compres...

Wavelet packet decompositions generalize the classical pyramidal wavelet structure. We use the vast amount of possible wavelet packet decomposition structures to create a secret wavelet domain and discuss how this idea can be used to improve the security of watermarking schemes. Two methods to create random wavelet packet trees are discussed and analyzed. The security against unauthorized detec...

JPEG 2000 will soon be an international standard for still image compression. This paper describes that standard at a high level, indicates the component pieces which empower the standard, and gives example applications which highlight differences between JPEG 2000 and prior image compression standards. Other papers in this conference provide greater detail on specific portions of the standard ...

Although widely used standards such as JPEG and JPEG 2000 exist in the literature, lossy image compression is still a subject of ongoing research. Galić et al. (2008) have shown that compression based on edge-enhancing anisotropic diffusion can outperform JPEG for medium to high compression ratios when the interpolation points are chosen as vertices of an adaptive triangulation. In this paper w...

Compression is a technique to reduce the quantity of data without excessively reducing the quality of the multimedia data.The transition and storing of compressed multimedia data is much faster and more efficient than original uncompressed multimedia data. There are various techniques and standards for multimedia data compression, especially for image compression such as the JPEG and JPEG2000 s...

Robust hash functions for visual data need a feature extraction mechanism to rely on. We experimentally compare spatial and transform domain feature extraction techniques and identify the global DCT combined with the cryptographic hash function MD-5 to be suited for visual hashing. This scheme offers robustness against JPEG2000 and JPEG compression and qualitative sensitivity to intentional glo...

In this work, a novel word-level algorithm of the embedded block codingin P E G 2000 is proposed. Unlike conventional approaches, all bitplanes of coefficients are processed in parallel in the proposed algorithm. The algorithm is based on the observations and the analysis of the significant state of a coefficient and its contribution to neighbors. As a result of the analysis, there is only the ...

We propose a new, very low complexity, single-pass, algorithm for compression of continuous tone compound documents, known as GRAFIT (GuaRAnteed FIT) that can guarantee a minimum compression ratio of as much as 12:1 and even more, for all images in a single pass, while maintaining visually lossless quality when reproduced at resolution 300 dpi or more. The compression ratio is guaranteed in a s...

Reliably assessing overall quality of JPEG/JPEG2000 coded images without having the original image as a reference is still challenging, mainly due to our limited understanding of how humans combine the various perceived artifacts to an overall quality judgment. A known approach to avoid the explicit simulation of human assessment of overall quality is the use of a neural network. Neural network...

To bridge the mismatch between the sizes of images and display devices, we present an efficient and automatic algorithm to create an adaptive image representation called SmartNail. Given a digital image and rectangular display frame smaller than the image, we define the SmartNail as an appropriately cropped part of a suitably scaled-down image. We choose the SmartNail-defining parameters — down...