Abstract
Noise reduction of VQ encoded images is achieved through the proposed anti-gray coding (AGC) and noise detection and correction scheme. In AGC, binary indices are assigned to the codevector in such a way that the 1-b neighbors of a code vector are as far apart as possible. To detect the channel errors, we first classify an image into uniform and edge regions. Then we propose a mask to detect the channel errors based on the image classification (uniform or edge region) and characteristics of AGC. We also mathematically derive a criterion for error detection based on the image classification. Once error indices are detected, the recovered indices can be easily chosen from a "candidate set" by minimizing the gray-level transition across the block boundaries in a VQ encoded image. Simulation results show that the proposed technique provides detection results with smaller than 0.1% probability of error and more than 86.3% probability of detection at random bit error rate 0.1%, while the undetected errors are invisible. In addition, the proposed detection and correction techniques improve image quality (compared with that encoded by AGC) by 3.9 dB.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 33-40 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1999 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Gray code
- Noise detection and correction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design