A fully embedded two-stage coder for hyperspectral near-lossless compression

This letter proposes a near-lossless coder for hyperspectral images. The coding technique is fully embedded and minimizes the distortion in the l2 norm initially and in the l∞ norm subsequently. Based on a two-stage near-lossless compression scheme, it includes a lossy and a near-lossless layer. The novelties are: the observation of the convergence of the entropy of the residuals in the original domain and in the spectral-spatial transformed domain; and an embedded near-lossless layer. These contributions enable a progressive transmission while optimising both SNR and PAE performance. The embeddedness is accomplished by bitplane encoding plus arithmetic encoding. Experimental results suggest that the proposed method yields a highly competitive coding performance for hyperspectral images, outperforming multi-component JPEG2000 for l∞ norm and pairing its performance for l2 norm, and also outperforming M-CALIC in the near-lossless case -for PAE ≥5-