A quadsection algorithm for grammar-based image compression

作者：Hayashida Morihiro; Ruan Peiying; Akutsu Tatsuya^*

来源：Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2012, 19(1): 23-38.

DOI：10.3233/ICA-2012-0389

• Grammar-based compression
• image compression

Grammar-based compression is to find a small grammar that generates a given data and has been well-studied in text compression. In this paper, we apply this methodology to compression of rectangular image data. We first define a context-free rectangular image grammar (CFRIG) by extending the context-free grammar. Then we propose a quadsection type algorithm by extending a bisection type algorithm for grammar-based compression of text data. We show that our proposed algorithm approximates M polynomial time the smallest CFRIG within a factor of O(n(4/3)), where an input image data is of size O(n) x O(n). Furthermore, we practically improve the proposed algorithm by adding several rules concerning sub-images. We also present results on computational experiments on the proposed algorithms.

• 出版日期2012