Progressive Image Compression for a Power Constrained Channel

For a power constrained Gaussian channel we determine the energy per bit for a BPSK transmitter and the channel code rate to minimize the end-to-end average quantizer distortion for progressive image compression. This provides an additional degree of freedom with respect to previously proposed schemes, and therefore can achieve higher overall PSNRs for images. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation. M. Fossorier and Z. Xiong are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822. Email: fmarc, [email protected] K. Zeger is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0407. Email: [email protected]