Performance superiority of hybrid DKT-DCT wavelet compared to DKT, DCT individual transforms and their wavelets in image compression

This paper proposes simple and novel image compression method using transforms. Discrete cosine Transform (DCT) and Discrete Kekre Transform (DKT) are applied on image individually. Wavelet transform of DCT and DKT is generated using Kekre's algorithm of wavelet generation. Wavelet transform gives better energy compaction than individual transform. It is reflected in reconstructed image quality of wavelet transforms. Further hybridization of two transform is used and hybrid wavelet transform using DKT and DCT is generated and applied on images. It combines properties of both, Kekre transform and DCT. Hybrid wavelet transform gives lesser error than wavelet transform and individual orthogonal transform.