A new wavelet image coding method is presented to exploit both intra/inter-band correlations. While the traditional zerotree approach can exploit correlation between subbands, a wavelet decomposition has properties more suitable for the runlength coding method, which can exploit spatial correlation. The proposed method classifies wavelet coefficients into groups according to their parents' magnitude. Each group is chosen in order of the magnitude and scanned to keep spatial correlation. It outperforms the zerotree-based coding approach especially at low bit rate.
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