Effective integer-to-integer transforms for JPEG2000 coder

This paper considers reversible transforms which are used in wavelet compression according to nowadays JPEG2000 standard. Original data decomposition in a form of integer wavelet transformation realized in subband decomposition scheme is optimized by design and selection of the most effective transforms. Lifting scheme is used to construct new biorthogonal symmetric wavelets. Number and distribution of vanishing moments, subband coding gain, associated filter length, computational complexity and number of lifting steps were mainly analyzed in the optimization of designed transforms. Coming from many tests of compression efficiency evaluation in JPEG2000 standardization process, the best selected transforms have been compared to designed ones to conclude the most efficient for compression wavelet bases and their important features. Certain new transforms overcome all other in both phases of lossy-to-lossless compression (e.g. up to 0.5 dB of PSNR for 0.5 bpp in comparison to the state-of-art transforms of JPEG2000 compression, and up to 3dB over 513 standard reversible transform). Moreover, the lossy compression efficiency of proposed reversible wavelets is comparable to reference irreversible wavelets potential in several cases. The highest improvement over that reference PSNR values is close to 1.2 dB.