A Lossless-by-Lossy Approach to Lossless Image Compression

This paper proposes a method of lossless image coding by the aid of lossy image coding. It aims at an improvement in the compression efficiency. We apply a kind of embedded coding to large coefficients in magnitude in a wavelet transform domain. The other wavelet coefficients are encoded by a context-based entropy coding. The result slightly outperforms the compression efficiency in JPEG-LS.