Application of wavelet packet image compression technique to particle image velocimetry

Our motive of this study is to develop an application of the wavelet packet to PIV image compression processing in order to improve the spatial resolution and reliability furthermore. It was found that the reconstructed PIV image with a lower compression ratio might emphasize particle edges at a relatively high spatial resolution. The reconstructed PIV image with a higher compression ratio may display the large-scale motion of particles and may deduce noisy. In this study, the relative error of the wavelet packet image compression technique was lower than that of the standard wavelet image compression technique. The higher compression ratio of 64:1 can be realized without losing significant flow information in PIV processing. It could say that the wavelet packet could provide a better compression performance than the standard wavelet image compression technique when compressing PIV images.