Development of JPEG 2000 simulator and image quality analysis on bit plane coding

JPEG 2000 is new standard and it has various useful features. Bit plane coding is JPEG 2000's new coding scheme and by using it, JPEG 2000 can provide various new additional functions like high resolutions image compression, progressive transmission and scalable coding of image, etc. Because bit plane coding is one of key functional block and it play important role in JPEG 2000, we want to analyze its effect on image quality. To do so, we developed JPEG 2000 simulator including forward and inverse transform block, bit plane coding block, Tier-2 Encoder block, etc. By using it, we analyzed JPEG 2000's characteristics, changing number of bit planes and quantization step size. In this paper, we describe on image quality analysis for JPEG 2000's bit plane coding.