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Fractal quantization

Cadenas, O. and Megson, G. M. (2004) Fractal quantization. In: 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, Proceedings. IEEE, New York, pp. 461-464. ISBN 0780385268

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Abstract/Summary

A Fractal Quantizer is proposed that replaces the expensive division operation for the computation of scalar quantization by more modest and available multiplication, addition and shift operations. Although the proposed method is iterative in nature, simulations prove a virtually undetectable distortion to the naked eve for JPEG compressed images using a single iteration. The method requires a change to the usual tables used in JPEG algorithins but of similar size. For practical purposes, performing quantization is reduced to a multiplication plus addition operation easily programmed in either low-end embedded processors and suitable for efficient and very high speed implementation in ASIC or FPGA hardware. FPGA hardware implementation shows up to x15 area-time savingscompared to standars solutions for devices with dedicated multipliers. The method can be also immediately extended to perform adaptive quantization(1).

Item Type:Book or Report Section
Divisions:Science
ID Code:14371
Uncontrolled Keywords:scalar quantization, JPEG, FPGA, fixed-point methods
Additional Information:Proceedings Paper IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics SEP 01-03, 2004 Reading, ENGLAND
Publisher:IEEE

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