An Efficient Bit Plane Compression Technique based on Constant Area Coding for Transmission of Digital Images through Internet

Abstract

Nowadays a large amount of images are transmitted through internet. It uses a very large bandwidth and often results in time out errors and images can not be downloaded easily. Therefore it necessitates an effective image compression technique that uses lesser bits for representing the image and hence lesser bandwidth. This paper proposes a lossy bit plane compression technique that targets Interpixel redundancy and uses Constant Area Coding for replacing a block of bits. The performance of the technique is dependent on the choice of block size. This paper also quantitatively compares the impact of block size on image compression.