A LOG-EXP still image compression chip design

In this paper, a fully pipelined single chip is proposed for LOG-EXP still image compression. The design of the LOG-EXP image compression focuses on the high compression ratio of a complex texture (e.g. benchmark image baboon) and high quality image, especially the PSNR requirement above 36. In comparison with the JPEG compression result (bpp=0.99, PSNR=26.9), this compression algorithm uses less bpp (bpp=0.87) to get a higher image quality (PSNR=36.38) for the benchmark image baboon. The entire LOG-EXP image compression system can be implemented on a single chip to yield a clock rate of 175 MHz which allow an input rate of 30 frames per second for 1024/spl times/1024 color images.