Abstract

The new developments in the field of wavelet technology in image

processing reveals many advantages in transmission and storing of still images over
conventional method. One of the standards in high resolution still image compression
called JPEG2000 evolved from the research and development in Wavelet transform.
How ever these techniques reduce much computational complexity, run time and
memory requirement. The proposed work accomplished a hardware design of the 2
dimensional discrete wavelet transform by using lifting scheme for image
decomposition in Hardware description language VHDL.

In this project source image is converted to pixel text coefficients by

application software, these text coefficients are fed to the input of 2D DWT algorithm.
2D DWT using the lifting scheme is implemented by Le Gall 5tap/3tap filter. If we
observe the result, we can find that the transformed text coefficients representing high
frequency and low frequency information separately. This has been obtained by two
level decomposition of the source image. The result focuses the low frequency
information which represented by one fourth of the entire information.

The proposed architecture for the project is a combination of Level based

and line based two dimensional DWT architecture. This scheme is far better than the
convolution based scheme. This work has new approach with Le Gall 5tap/3tap filter
for lossless compression. Our architecture have two major modules, they are DWT
processor and an embedded memory of 8KB. Hopes this work will open an
opportunity for developing DWT processing cores for DSP’ s and application specific
integrated circuits as well as developing a tool set in the VHDL library.