10-14-10 - Image Comparison Part 6 - cbwave

"cbwave" is my ancient wavelet coder from my wavelet video proof of concept. It's much simpler than JPEG 2000 and not "modern" in any way. But I tacked a bunch of color space options onto it for testing at RAD so I thought that would be interesting to see :

cbwaves various colorspaces :

log rmse :

ms-ssim-scielab :

notes :

RMSE : Obviously no color transform is very bad. Other than that, KLT is surprisingly bad at high bit rate (something I noted in a post long ago). The other color spaces are roughly identical. This coder has the best RMSE behavior of any we've seen yet. This is why wavelets were so exciting when they first came out - this coder is incredibly simple, there's no RDO or optimizing at all, it doesn't do wavelet packets or bit planes, or anything, and yet it beats PAQ-JPEG.

MS-SSIM-SCIELAB : and here we see the disappointment of wavelets. The great RMSE behavior doesn't carry over to the perceptual metric. The best color space by far is the old "YUV" from JPEG, which has largely fallen out of favor. But we see that maybe that was foolish.

cbwave also has an option for downsampling chroma, but it's no good, so these graphs are posted as an example of what bad chroma up/down sampling can do to you :

log rmse :

ms-ssim-scielab :

cbwave is a fixed pyramid structure wavelet doing daub97 horizontally and cdf22 vertically; the coder is a value coder (not bitplane) for speed. Some obvious things to improve it : fix the chroma subsample, try optimal weighting of color planes for perceptual quality, try daub97 vertical, try optimal per-image wavelet shapes, wavelet packets, directional wavelets, perceptual RDO, etc.

ASIDE : I'd like to try DLI or ADCTC , but neither of them support color, so I'm afraid they're out.