Designing a Codec System for High Resolution Textual Images Based on Super Resolution

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1 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran,

Abstract

In this paper, a CODEC system based on super resolution, is proposed for compression of high resolution textual images. It employs image resizing to decrease image dimensions and consequently, to improve the compression ratio; but at the other hand, it may reduce the image quality. Therefore, the decompression unit employs super resolution to simultaneously increase the reconstructed image dimensions and quality. In the employed interpolation-based super-resolution method, using an efficient textual image matting algorithm, the input low-resolution textual image is decomposed into three layers after which, each layer is enlarged using a particular method. Finally, the enlarged layers are combined to build the high resolution reconstructed textual image. An interesting feature of the proposed method is the ability to use existing compression methods such as JPEG, JPEG2000 and SPIHT. We have employed the aforementioned compression methods in the proposed CODEC system and evaluated the compression results with respect to OCR rate, Mean Opinion Score (MOS), and PSNR measures. Considering the OCR and MOS measures, the proposed method outperformed the others but not so with respect to PSNR.

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