Efficient hardware implementation of an image compressor for wireless capsule endoscopy applications

The paper presents an area- and power-efficient implementation of an image compressor for wireless capsule endoscopy application. The architecture uses a direct mapping to compute the two-dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform which eliminates the need of transpose operation and results in reduced area and low processing time. The algorithm has been modified to comply with the JPEG standard and the corresponding quantization tables have been developed and the architecture is implemented using the CMOS 0.18um technology. The processor costs less than 3.5k cells, runs at a maximum frequency of 150 MHz, and consumes 10 mW of power. The test results of several endoscopic colour images show that higher compression ratio (over 85%) can be achieved with high quality image reconstruction (over 30 dB).