In a standard image coding scenario,pixel-to-pixel correlation nearly always exists in the data.especially if the image is a natural scene.This correlation is what allows predictive coding schemes(e.g.,DPCM)to perform efficient compression.In a colormapped image,the Values stored in the Pixel array are no longer directly related to the pixel intensity.Two color indices which are numerically adjacent (close)may point to two very different colors.The correlation still exists.but only via the colormap.This fact can be exploited by sorting the color map to reintroduce the structure.In this Paper we study the sorting of colormaps and show how the resulting structure can be used in both lossless and lossy compression of images.
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