Shape Adaptive Texture Coding Based on Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform

Transform coding of arbitrary shape object is one of the core technologies of MPEG-4 video coding. In this chapter, we propose a shape adaptive Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform framework for MPEG4 texture coding. In the shape adaptive texture coding framework, Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform is divided into two parts: the Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform of the shape mask, and the Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform of the object texture. In the Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform phase, the shape coding is carried out using lazy Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform, and the texture coding is carried out by 9/7 wavelets in the form of lifting. In the zerotree quantization stage of wavelet coefficients, three quantization methods are adopted according to different needs. The experimental results show that the Wavelet-Based Contourlet Transform texture coding based on object has similar low complexity with the texture coding, such as SADCT, and the performance is better. Moreover, the coding effect is better than that of SADCT at low bit rate.