PERCEPTUAL OPTIMIZATION OF WAVELET IMAGE COMPRESSION NASA’s extensive image compression requirements may be met in part by the use of wavelet techniques.1 Wavelets form a large class of signal and image transforms, generally characterized by de

In this paper, we propose a new perceptual model for balanced multiwavelet (BMW) transforms. The latter transform achieves simultaneous orthogonality and symmetry without requiring any input prefiltering. The proposed model is derived using m