Fast and Context-Free Lossless Image Compression Algorithm Based on JPEG-LS

While the context-based entropy coding and bias cancellation steps in the JPEG-LS standard are key features to its compression performance, these steps also enlarge the memory footprint, create dependencies in the data path of implementations and hence limit parallelism in modern multi-core or GPU architectures, and the throughput in hardware implementations. In the proposed modification of JPEG-LS, such most expensive parts with respect to memory space requirements and computational complexity are omitted.