Journal on Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 8-14.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.08.002

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High efficient shape coding based on the representation of contour and chain code

Zhong-jie ZHU1,Yu-e WANG1,Gang-yi JIANG2   

  1. 1 Ningbo Key Lab. of DSP, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo 315100, China
    2 Institute of Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
  • Online:2014-08-25 Published:2017-06-29
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province;Technology Foundation for Selected Overseas Chinese Scholar, MOHRSS of China;The Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo

Abstract:

A high efficient lossless shape coding scheme was proposed based on the representation of contour and chain code. The object contours are firstly extracted and thinned to be single-pixel width. Then the object contours are trans-formed into chain-code-based representation and divided into different sub-segments based on link directions to make each sub-segment consist of up to two types of links. Thirdly, straightness detection is performed and long straight-line segments within contours are separated. Finally, different schemes are proposed to encode the straight-line sub-segments and ordinary curve sub-segments by employing the spatial correlations among contours aiming to acquire high coding performance. Experiments are conducted and the results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing tech-niques and can improve the compression efficiency by 36.5% on average compared with the state-of-the-art method.

Key words: visual objects, shape coding, lossless coding, chain code

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