A moving image compression/decompression apparatus and method that uses, for example, a wavelet transform technique in order to improve a compression rate is disclosed. The moving image compression/decompression apparatus includes an A/D converter for converting moving image data into digital data. The digital data is divided into a plurality of level regions using a wavelet transformer. The apparatus also includes a quantizer for quantizing the data that has been transform with a predetermined weight that corresponds to each of the regions. The apparatus also includes an SZT coder for performing a lossless DPCM coding with respect to the data quantized sequentially form a high level region to a low level regionusing a similarity between the level regions based on a predetermined SZT map. A Huffman coder for encoding the data subject to SZT coding by the SZT coder based on the probability of high frequency components which exist in each of the level regions, and a stream file generator for outputting the data encoded by the Huffman coder as bit stream.
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