Directional wavelet compression

[R2D]

Hello,

I have started developping a compressor / decrompressor for images (not yet video) using directional wavelets. Currently it's very experimental but I hope to do something more usable in the future.
You can see compression results and download the source code on the libdwic home page (http://libdwic.berlios.de).
Anyone interrested in image compression developpement is welcome.

Nicolas

[bill_baroud]

Interesting... what sort of help/comment do you expect ?
(yay a new rududu codec would be cool ;))

[R2D]

Interesting... what sort of help/comment do you expect ?

At this stage I'm looking for people having knowledge in image compression (or who want to learn) to improve the compression algo (meaning the best possible compression/complexity/feature trade-off).
As my interest was mainly on testing directional transform, the libdwic project as no other goal than an experimental one. It should be interesting to define a "real" goal for the project if someone wants to contribute.

[Hellworm]

I'm very interested in image and video compression. But I don't understand the math of wavelets (I think I will need some years until I can work with this :)

But if you really plan to do a video codec I'd like to contribute a motion estimation model. I have some ideas about a new way on that.