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.-oriented compression, or, at most, provide a very limited number of potential L-infinity bit-stream truncation points. We propose a new multidimensional wavelet-based L-infinity-constrained scalable coding framework that generates a fully embedded L-infinity-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-infinity coding sense.