Adaptive Vector Quantization through Updating a Codebook for Image Sequence Coding

코드북의 갱신을 통한 연속적인 화상에서의 적응적 벡터양자화

Successive images can be reconstructed without great degradation by using one codebook in vector quantization, because statistics of successive images are sinilar. In this paper, we propose a method to update vector centroids in one slot of an image sequence and reconstruct images with the codebook replenished with the updated vector centroids. To remove the overhead required to transmit the updated vector centroids, we catagorize image blocks into changing blocks and nonchanging blocks, and then transmit only the labels of the changing blocks. Therefore, we can assign the remaining bits to the replenishment of a codebook. By the proposed method, almost the same image as the same image as the one reconstructed by LBG algorithm can be obtained and the bit rate can be reduced to below 0.5 bit/pixel.