INTERPOLATIVE BTC IMAGE-CODING WITH VECTOR QUANTIZATION

We suggest two interpolative BTC image coding schemes with vector quantization and median filters as the interpolator. The first scheme is based on quincunx subsampling and the second one on every-other-row-and-every-other-column subsampling. It is shown that the new schemes yield a significant reduction in bit rate at only a small performance degradation but in general better channel error resisting capabilities, as compared to the absolute moment BTC. The methods are further demonstrated to outperform the corresponding BTC schemes with pure vector quantization at the same bit rate and require minimal computations for the interpolation.