Performance Comparison of H. 264/AVC I-Frame Encoder and JPEG2000 on Still Image Compression[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2006, 11(3): 425. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20060368.
JPEG2000 stands for the state-of the-art of still image coding based on discrete wavelet transform(DWT)
and H.264/AVC stands for the state-of-the-art of video coding based on variable block sizes discrete cosine transform(DCT).In addition
the H.264/AVC I-frame encoder(H.264-IFE) adopted several advanced techniques
such as directional spatial prediction
variable and hierarchical block transform etc
which improve its coding efficiency significantly.Basically
H.264-IFE is also the state-of-the-art of still image compression algorithm based on block transform.In this paper
a performance evaluation between H.264-IFE and JPEG2000 in terms of PSNR is presented.The experimental results show that H.264-IFE achieves better reconstructed image quality than JPEG2000.These results demonstrated the H.264-IFE's advanced techniques such as directional spatial prediction and variable block-size DCT coding are potential methods for developing next generation still image coding standard.