Finite state lattice vector quantization for wavelet-based image coding

It is well known that there exists strong energy correlation between various subbands of a real-world image. A new powerful technique of Finite State Vector Quantization (FSVQ) has been introduced to fully exploit the self-similarity of the image in wavelet domain across different scales. Lattices in R/sup N/ have considerable structure, and hence, Lattice VQ offers the promise of design simplicity and reduced complexity encoding. The combination of FSVQ and LVQ gives rise to the so-called FSLVQ, which is proved to be successful in exploiting the energy correlation across scales and is simple enough in implementation.