Enhanced SPIHT Algorithm with Pipelined Datapath Architecture Design

Year 2019, Volume: 19 Issue: 1, 29 - 36, 01.01.2019

Serap Cekli , Ali Akman

Abstract

DOI: 10.26650/electrica.2018.15101

Set partitioning in hierarchical trees
(SPIHT) is an efficient algorithm which is used for the image compression
widely. SPIHT operates sequentially so, its parallel implementation is
difficult. In this study, the SPIHT algorithm is improved for providing that it
is suitable for the parallel processing applications, and the corresponding
pipelined datapath is designed for the proposed enhanced SPIHT algorithm. The
datapath is designed to have three stages as preprocessing, list generation and
output stream. In the preprocessing stage, the flags which are supports the
list generation stage are constituted. List of insignificant sets (LIS), list
of insignificant pixels (LIP) and list of significant pixels (LSP) are formed
in list generation stage. These lists contain the bit values which generate the
output bit stream. The performance of the improved datapath design has been
tested by compressing different images, and the obtained results are given.

Cite this article as: Çekli S, Akman A.
Enhanced SPIHT Algorithm with Pipelined Datapath Architecture Design.
Electrica, 2019; 19(1): 29-36.

Keywords

SPIHT, enhanced SPIHT, image compression, pipelined datapath

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