Lossless image compression using valley transform

Abstract

In this paper, a novel geometric transform, called the valley transform (VT), is proposed for robust compression of noisy images. The VT employs a nonlinear transform to convert random signals into regular ones. The proposed VT is able to change random pixels to regular one. For testing the compression performance, the VT is combined with the SPHIT method. The VT yields slightly better performance than the conventional image codecs such as JBIG, HD-photo and H.264 intra method in the lower bit-plane image compression.