Optimization and Implementation of Integer Lifting Scheme for Lossless Image Coding

This paper presents an adaptive lifting scheme, which performs integer-to-integer wavelet transform, for lossless image compression. We optimize the coefficients of the predict filter in the lifting scheme to minimize the predictor's error variance. The optimized coefficients depend on the autocorrelation structure of the image. The presented lifting scheme adapts not only to every component of the color image, but also to its horizontal and vertical directions. We implement this lifting scheme on the fixed-point TMS320C6416 DSK evaluation board. We obtain experimental results using different types of images, as well as using images captured by camera in a real-time application. These results show that the presented method is competitive to few well-known methods for lossless image compression.