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5 July 1995 Practical transform coding of multispectral imagery
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In this paper we present a robust and implementable compression algorithm for multispectral imagery with a selectable quality level within the near-lossless to visually lossy range. The three-dimensional terrain-adaptive transform-based algorithm involves a one dimensional Karhunen-Loeve transform (KLT) followed by two-dimensional discrete cosine transform (DCT). The images are spectrally decorrelated via the KLT to produce the eigen images. The resulting spectrally decorrelated eigen images are then compressed using the JPEG algorithm. The key feature of this approach is that it incorporates the best methods available to fully exploit the spectral and spatial correlation in the data. The novelty of this technique lies in its unique capability to adaptively vary the characteristics of the spectral decorrelation transformation based upon variations in the local terrain. The spectral and spatial modularity of the algorithm architecture allows the JPEG to be replaced by a totally different coder (e.g., DPCM). However, the significant practical advantage of this approach is that it is leveraged on the standard and highly developed JPEG compression technology. The algorithm is conveniently parameterized to accommodate reconstructed image fidelities ranging from near- lossless at about 5:1 compression ratio (CR) to visually lossy beginning at around 40:1 CR.
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John A. Saghri, Andrew G. Tescher, and John T. Reagan "Practical transform coding of multispectral imagery", Proc. SPIE 2484, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition IV, (5 July 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.213071
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KEYWORDS
Image compression

Multispectral imaging

Visualization

Visual compression

Standards development

Chromium

Quantization

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