Lossless coding will become the latest extension of the MPEG-4 audio standard. The lossless audio codec of the Technical University of Berlin was chosen as reference model for MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS). The MPEG-4 ALS encoder is based on linear prediction, which enables high compression even with moderate complexity, while the corresponding decoder is straightforward. The paper describ...

In this paper, we propose a new one-dimensional (1D) integer discrete cosine transform (Int-DCT) for unified lossless/lossy image compression. The proposed 1D Int-DCT is newly designed to reduce rounding effects by minimizing number of rounding operations. The proposed Int-DCT can be operated not only lossless coding for a high quality decoded image but also lossy coding for a compatibility wit...

This paper describes a psychophysical experiment to measure visibility thresholds (VT) for quantization distortion in JPEG2000 and an associated quantization algorithm for visually lossless coding of color aerial images. The visibility thresholds are obtained from a quantization distortion model based on the statistical characteristics of wavelet coefficients and the deadzone quantizer of JPEG2...

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality. Available techniques for lossless audio compression, or lossless audio packing, generally employ an adaptive waveform predictor with a variable-rate entropy coding of the residual, such as Huffman or Gol...

Compression is necessary for video coding, which introduces the fundamental of video image formation. The efficient, fast encoding, lossy and lossless technique are required for video coding for different application. Focus is concentrated on the lossless intra coding method in video image besides various video coding standards. The upcoming H. 264 video compression standard promises a signific...

| This paper presents an overview of the current state of the art in lossless and quasi-lossless image coding research. Emphasis is put on two important application areas, in which high quality coding is essential: medical imaging and the pre-press industry. The paper brieey discusses the basic principles of the most important techniques and compares these techniques from the point of view of c...

Recent papers have proposed linear prediction as a useful method for lossless audio coding. Transform coding, however, hasn’t been investigated so far, although it seems to be more adapted to the harmonic structure of most audio signals. In this paper we present first results on lossless transform coding of CD-quality audio data. One main aspect lies on a suitable quantization method to obtain ...