Fully Scalable Wavelet-Based Image Coding for Transmission Over Heterogeneous Networks

This paper presents a fully scalable image coding scheme based on the Set Partitioning in Hierarchi-cal Trees (SPIHT) algorithm. The proposed algorithm, called Fully Scalable SPIHT (FS-SPIHT), adds the spa-tial scalability feature to the SPIHT algorithm. It pro-vides this new functionality without sacricing other important features of the original SPIHT bitstream such as: compression efciency, ful…