Image Compression using Shannon-Fano-Elias Coding and Run Length Encoding

Image Compression is a technique, which reduces the size of an image without much loss of information. In this paper we have put forward a new method for image compression that includes techniques such as Shannon-Fano - Elias coding followed by Run Length Encoding (RLE). By using parameters like Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR), Mean Square Error (MSE) the efficiency of our proposed algorithm is evaluated by giving square matrix image (256×256) as input.