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A novel color image compression scheme based on block truncation coding is proposed in this paper. In this scheme, the quadtree segmentation technique is employed to partition the color image into variable-sized image blocks according to its block activities. Then, the block truncation coding scheme with the bit map omission technique is employed to encode the image blocks. According to the experimental results, the proposed scheme significantly cuts down the bit rates while keeping good reconstructed image qualities of the compressed color images.

In this paper, a simple active image authentication scheme for the compressed images of block truncation coding (BTC) is proposed. In this scheme, the authentication codes of the compressed blocks are generated from the random value induced by the random seed. The authentication code of each compressed block is embedded into the bit map. The bit length of each authentication code can be chosen according to the user’s requirement. The experimental results indicate that the proposed scheme detects the tampered areas clearly and keeps good image qualities of the embedded images. Meanwhile, a low computational cost is required in the proposed scheme.

이 논문에서는 데이터 은닉기법을 적용하여 BTC 영상을 압축하는 방법을 제안한다. BTC는 일반적인 디지털 영상을 2진 영상으로 압축하는 알고리즘이며 프린터와 같은 응용에서도 사용이 가능하다. BTC 알고리즘에서 이진영상과 함께 전송되는 부가정보의 크기가 이진영상의 크기와 같을 정도로 크므로 이 정보를 정보은닉 기법을 이용하여 줄임으로서 전체적인 전송량을 줄이고자 한다. 하지만 일반적인 BTC 영상에서 데이터 은닉을 위한 공간이 충분하지 않으므로 본 논문에서는 Adaptive AMBTC 알고리즘을 적용하여 생성된 이진영상에 가상 히스토그램을 구한 후 히스토그램 변형을 통하여 부가정보의 양을 줄이고자 한다. 논문에서 제공하는 알고리즘은 기존의 BTC 또는 Adaptive AMBTC 알고리즘에서 생성된 영상과 화질의 차이를 크게 보이지 않는 범위 내에서 파일 크기를 6-11%정도 줄일 수 있다.

In this paper, It propose methods compressing BTC image utilizing data hiding technique. BTC is used to compress general digital image into binary image and applied into application such as printer. Additional information, transferred with binary image, is as big as the size of binary image. Therefore, we wish to reduce the total transmission bandwidth by decreasing the additional information with sustaining the small image degradation. Because typical BTC image doesn't have enough space for data hiding, we adopt Adaptive AMBTC (Absolute Moment BTC) algorithm to produce the binary image, and calculate virtual histogram from created binary image and modify this histogram for reducing the additional information. The proposed algorithm can reduce about 6-11 % of the image file size, compared with the existing BTC algorithm, without making perceptible image degradation.

BTC 압축은 간단하고 효율적인 압축 알고리즘으로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는, 컬러 이미지 압축을 위한 RMC-BTC 알고리즘(RMC : reduction method chrominace data)을 제안한다. RMC-BTC coding은 chrominace data를 축소시키기 위해서, 각 BTC 블록에서, chrominace data를 평균으로 표현하는 방법과, luminance 데이터 의 bit-map을 chrominace 데이터의 bit-map으로 활용하여 chrominace 데이터를 표현하는 방법을 사용하였다. 시뮬레에션 결과는 기존의 BTC 알고리즘의 PSNR과 압축비율의 비교를 통해서, 제안한 알고리즘의 효율성을 확인하였다.

block truncation coding(BTC) image compression is known as a simple and efficient technology for image compression algorithm. In this paper, we propose RMC-BTC algorithm(RMC : reduction method chrominace data) for color image compression. To compress chrominace data, in every BTC block, the RMC-BTC coding employs chrominace data expressed with average of chrominace data and using method of luminance data bit-map to represented chrominance data bit-map. Experimental results shows efficiency of proposed algorithm, as compared with PSNR and compression ratio of the conventional BTC method.

BTC (Block Truncation Coding)은 이미지 압축 기법의 일종으로서 간단하고 효과적이다. 그러나, 이 방법은 블록 크기를 크게 사용할 때 블록 효과가 증가하므로 이미지의 질이 좋지 않다. ODBTC(Ordered Dithering Block Truncation Coding)는 BTC와 같은 압축 능력을 유지하면서 블록 효과를 해결한 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 압축된 이미지를 이용하여 데이터를 하프톤 이미지에 저장하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. EMD 방법은 Zhang과Wang[6]이 그레이스케일 이미지에 데이터를 은닉하도록 하도록 고안된 방법이다. 그런 이유로, 비트맵 이미지에는 적합하지 않다. 본 논문에서는 EMD가 어떻게 비트맵 이미지에 적용될 수 있는지를 제안한다. 또한, 본 논문의 실험에서, 우리가 제안한 방법이 하프톤 이미지에 효과적임을 증명한다.

Block truncation coding (BTC) is a simple and efficient image compression technique. However, it yields images of unacceptable quality and significant blocking effects are seen when the block size is increasing. Ordered dither block truncation coding (ODBTC) was proposed to solve above problem maintaining the same compression capability. In this paper, we propose a data hiding method which can be applied to halftone images. EMD was developed by Zhang and Wang [6] for data hiding in the grayscale image. Therefore, EMD is not proper for bitmap images. In this paper, we show that EMD can be used to apply bitmap halftone image. In our experiments, we prove that our method is efficient in a halftone image.

An adaptive block truncation coding(BTC) using human visual system(HVS) is proposed. To reduce visible blocking effect at sensitive area in HVS. a new category classification coefficient is proposed. The categroy classification coefficient was derived by combining the modified HVS and standard deviation. By computer simulations, we showed that the proposed method reduced blocking effect at low bit rate coding more than the conventional Hui's method.

This paper proposes an automatic variable block truncation coding (BTC) method. It selects the block size automatically based on the mode of the discontinutiy measure of blocks. The combination of an automatic block-size determination scheme and the conventional BTC results in the proposed automatic variable BTC techniques. For color images, subsampling in I and Q chrominance components is adopted along with the variable BTC. To show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, its simulation results are compared to those of the several conventional BTC algorithms for monochrome and color test images. Computer simulation shows that the proposed algorithm gives better performance than the conventional ones based on the subjective and objective performance evaluation.

This paper propose a novel vector-quantized block truncation coder for image data compression. A data compression ratio of about 3-6 times larger than that of the BTC can be achieved by utilizign a vector quantizer with the BTC. A vector quantizer was realized by computer simulation. The compressed data rate of 0.7~1.0 bit/pel with intraframe coder and that of 0.3~0.5 bit/pel with interframe coder gives a good performance.