Memory-efficient architecture of 2-D dual-mode discrete wavelet transform using lifting scheme for motion-JPEG2000

[[abstract]]In this work, we propose a memory-efficient architecture of lifting based two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (2D DWT) for motion-JPEG2000. The proposed 2D DWT architecture consists of a 1D row processor, internal memory, and a 1D column processor. The main advantage of this 2D DWT is to reduce the internal memory requirement significantly. For an NtimesN image, only 2N and 4N sizes of internal memory are required for the 5/3 and 9/7 filters, respectively, to perform the one-level 2D DWT decomposition. Moreover, it supports both lossless and lossy operation for 5/3 and 9/7 filters with high operation speed. The proposed 2D DWT surpasses the existed lifting-based designs in the aspects of low internal memory requirement. It is suitable for VLSI implementation and can support various real-time image/video applications such as JPEG2000, motion-JPEG2000, MPEG-4 still texture object decoding, and wavelet-based scalable video coding.[[notice]]需補會議日期、性質、主辦單位[[conferencedate]]20090524~2009052

A VLSI architecture of JPEG2000 encoder

Copyright @ 2004 IEEEThis paper proposes a VLSI architecture of JPEG2000 encoder, which functionally consists of two parts: discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and embedded block coding with optimized truncation (EBCOT). For DWT, a spatial combinative lifting algorithm (SCLA)-based scheme with both 5/3 reversible and 9/7 irreversible filters is adopted to reduce 50% and 42% multiplication computations, respectively, compared with the conventional lifting-based implementation (LBI). For EBCOT, a dynamic memory control (DMC) strategy of Tier-1 encoding is adopted to reduce 60% scale of the on-chip wavelet coefficient storage and a subband parallel-processing method is employed to speed up the EBCOT context formation (CF) process; an architecture of Tier-2 encoding is presented to reduce the scale of on-chip bitstream buffering from full-tile size down to three-code-block size and considerably eliminate the iterations of the rate-distortion (RD) truncation.This work was supported in part by the China National High Technologies Research Program (863) under Grant 2002AA1Z142

Design of wireless swallowable capsule with minimum power consumption and high resolution images

Medical technology has undergone major breakthroughs in recent years, especially in the area of the examination tools for diagnostic purposes. The traditional examination method for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases is gastroscopy with the use of an endoscope. Wireless camera pill has created a new perspective for engineers and physicians. After years of great innovation, commercial swallowable pills have been produced and applied in clinical practice. These pills can cover the examination of the gastrointestinal system and provide to the physicians not only a lot more useful data that is not available from the traditional methods, but also elimination of the use of the painful endoscopy procedure. In this paper, a new design of the wireless swallowable pills has been proposed. It takes advantage of the benefits of every sub-system, like camera lenses, image compressor and RF sub-system. In this way our system can provide enough and accurate data to the physicians

Simple Signal Extension Method for Discrete Wavelet Transform

Discrete wavelet transform of finite-length signals must necessarily handle the signal boundaries. The state-of-the-art approaches treat such boundaries in a complicated and inflexible way, using special prolog or epilog phases. This holds true in particular for images decomposed into a number of scales, exemplary in JPEG 2000 coding system. In this paper, the state-of-the-art approaches are extended to perform the treatment using a compact streaming core, possibly in multi-scale fashion. We present the core focused on CDF 5/3 wavelet and the symmetric border extension method, both employed in the JPEG 2000. As a result of our work, every input sample is visited only once, while the results are produced immediately, i.e. without buffering.Comment: preprint; presented on ICSIP 201

Complexity Reduction and Fast Algorithm for 2-D Integer Discrete Wavelet Transform Using Symmetric Mask-Based Scheme

[[abstract]]Wavelet coding has been shown to be better than discrete cosine transform (DCT) in image/video processing. Moreover, it has the feature of scalability, which is involved in modern video standards. This work presents novel algorithms, namely 2-D symmetric mask-based discrete wavelet transform (SMDWT), to improve the critical issue of the 2-D lifting-based discrete wavelet transform (LDWT), and then obtains the benefit of low latency, high-speed operation, and low temporal memory. The SMDWT also has the advantages of high-performance embedded periodic extension boundary treatment, reduced complexity, regular signal coding, short critical path, reduced latency time, and independent subband coding processing. Moreover, the 2-D lifting-based DWT performance can also be easily improved by exploiting appropriate parallel method inherently in SMDWT. Comparing with the normal 2-D 5/3 integer lifting-based DWT the proposed method significantly improves lifting-based latency and complexity in 2-D DWT without degradation in image quality. The algorithm can be applied to real-time image/video applications, such as JPEG2000, MPEG-4 still texture object decoding, and wavelet-based Scalable Video Coding (SVC).[[sponsorship]]IEEE Computer Society, U.S.A.[[notice]]需補會議地點[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20071210~2007121