The method of hierarchical multi-neighbor predictors and residual orthogonal transforms and its application to image compression (with K. Ashizawa and K. Yamatani), Transactions of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 239-257, 2007 (in Japanese).

Abstract

We propose new image algorithms by predicting each block using an improved gradient estimation at the block boundary followed by applying an orthogonal transformation to the prediction error. Compared to the previously proposed polyharmonic local cosine transform where the DC components of adjacent blocks were used for the gradient estiation, our new methods directly use multiple combinations of the neighboring pixel values to estimate the gradients at block boundary more accurately. Hence, we can improve the prediction of each block using such gradient information. Consequently, we can improve image reconstruction quality and reduce the blocking artifact and aliasing noise.

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