Wavelet-based scalable L-infinity-oriented compression

Among the different classes of coding techniques proposed in literature, predictive schemes have proven their outstanding performance in near-lossless compression. However, these schemes are incapable of providing embedded L infin -oriented compression, or, at most, provide a very limited number of potential L infin bit-stream truncation points. We propose a new multidimensional wavelet-based L infin -constrained scalable coding framework that generates a fully embedded L infin -oriented bit stream and that retains the coding performance and all the scalability options of state-of-the-art L 2 -oriented wavelet codecs. Moreover, our codec instantiation of the proposed framework clearly outperforms JPEG2000 in L infin coding sense