Source Coding and Transmission of HDTV Images with the Wavelet Transform

Digital high-definition TV (HDTV) signals are generally compressed to reduce transmission bandwidth requirements. This paper presents a compression algorithm for the bit rate reduction of an HDTV image using the wavelet transform. The major problems related to the transmission of a compressed HDTV signal are analyzed. Transmission is examined both on a noisy channel and an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. The effects of channel noise on the reconstructed image are determined, and a solution to mitigate the degradation of the image quality is presented. Lastly, a model for the output bit rate of the HDTV coder is derived and used to simulate the transmission of an ATM multiplexer so that the network's main performance parameters can be determined.