Improved Neural Structures for Image Compression

The problem considered is the effective compression of image data. Compared to the many methods which allow for high compression factors (mainly based on the DCT), the proposed neural approaches offer, after a suitable training, comparable performance both in terms of perceived image quality and measured SNR. Moreover, they are able to perform in the same step the two main required operations of transformation and selection of the most significant terms, with a correspondingly smaller computational effort