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international conference on acoustics, speech, and signal processing | 1987

Hierarchical encoding of image sequences using multistage vector quantization

Bernard Hammer; A. Brandt; M. Schielein

Vector quantization is a promising encoding technique especially for low data rate image transmission. Due to the exponential growing of its computational complexity with the block dimension, however, only small blocksizes have been used in practical applications. This restricts the coding efficiency and produces some blockiness in the reconstructed images. Our proposal solves this problems by a combination of a block-overlapping pyramidal transform with multistage VQ. This concept enables VQ of large blocks in a hierarchical manner with small computational costs, while the block-overlapping principle gives rise to a smooth image reconstruction. The simulation results proved that picture phone sequences are reconstructed without any annoying artifacts.


Hague International Symposium | 1987

An Adaptive Classification Procedure For Transform Coding Of Image Sequences

Herbert Holzlwimmer; Bernard Hammer

A classification method for adaptive scalar quantization and efficient encoding of the DCT coefficients of video phone signals is described. In a corresponding coder concept using hybrid vector and scalar quantization the vector quantization (VQ) stage is not only used as an efficient prequantization method but also as a classifier for zonal coding by the following adaptive scalar quantization and encoding stage. To optimize the coder per-formance, the VQ classification result is combined with the output of an energy-based classifier. Our simulation results indicate that in 61 kbit/s encoding applications this concept improves the signal-to-noise-ratio by up to 0.8 dB with regard to a pure energy-based classification method.


ASST '87 Aachener Symposium für Signaltheorie: Mehrdimensionale Signale und Bildverarbeitung | 1987

Codierung von Videosequenzen mit niedriger Datenrate durch Vektorquantisierung und Bewegungskompensation

Bernard Hammer; Achim von Brandt

Zur Datenkompression von Bildfolgen fur Videokonferenz- oder Bildfernsprechanwendung mit Ubertragungsraten im Bereich von 384 kbit/s und 2 Mbit/s haben sich orthogonale Transformationscodierungen (OTC) in Verbindung mit Bewegungskompensation als Standardverfahren durchgesetzt. Ihr Einsatz fur 64 kbit/s Bildfernsprechen, das z.Zt. als moglicher Dienst in einem Schmalband-ISDN zur Diskussion steht, zeigt jedoch einige prinzipielle Schwachen des Verfahrens. Bedingt durch die Verarbeitung von Bildern in einem festem Blockraster von voneinander unabhangigen Blocken der Grose 16 × 16 oder 8 × 8 Bildpunkten, reicht die zur Verfugung stehende Datenrate nicht mehr aus, um bei hohen Bewegtanteilen der Bildfolge die Stetigkeitder Bildrekonstruktion an Blockgrenzen zu gewahrleisten. Diese Blockartifakte wirken, nicht zuletzt wegen der Grose der Blocke, sehr storend. Als Alternative zur OTC wird hier ein auf einer Pyramidentransformation basierender Algorithmus vorgestellt, der eine ‘glatte’ Bildrekonstruktion sicherstellt und eine hierarchische Codierung mit variabler Blockgrose durch Bewegungskompensation und Vektorquantisierung vornimmt.


Archive | 1988

Method for data reduction of digital image sequences

Bernard Hammer; Achim von Brandt


Archive | 1986

Method for data reduction of digital picture signals by vector quantization of coefficients acquired by orthonormal transformation by means of a symmetrical, nearly cyclical Hadamard matrix

Bernard Hammer


Archive | 1995

Method, requiring reduced memory capacity, for decoding compressed video data

Stefan Prange; Heribert Geib; Bernard Hammer; Jürgen Pandel


Archive | 2003

Optimum positioning of the screen of a computer monitor relative to the user uses camera coupled to computer to control adjusting mechanism

Sultan Haider; Bernard Hammer; Istvan Sebestyen


Archive | 1995

Method for decoding compressed video data with a reduced memory requirement

Stefan Prange; Heribert Geib; Bernard Hammer; Jürgen Pandel


Archive | 2004

Apparatus and method for recording image information for creation of a three-dimensional image

Sultan Haider; Bernard Hammer


Archive | 1988

Method for the data reduction of digital picture sequences

Bernard Hammer; Brandt Achim Von

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