Cladyn, a new compressor for numerical color TV and multispectral images

摘要

The CLADYN compressor banks on the topological properties of a color image to achieve the highest possible data rate reduction with the minimum amount of visible degradation.In the case of numerical color TV, the input data at 166 MB/s is the CCIR imposed luminance Y and chrominance B- Y, RY components. The compressor output is at 25.26 MB/s, exclusive of sound channels and error correcting overhead. High reconstructed picture quality is obtained (at the rate of 6.56/1) without the use of any TV temporal redundancy. In the case of multispectral images, excellent image reconstruction is obtained with a signal to quantization noise ranging from 40 to 50 dBs and with a data rate reduction factor higher than 4/1 for scenes comprising 3–5 spectral channels. This type of compressor is not very sensitive to channel misregistration, is robust to the propagation of the transmission errors and outputs fixed length words.