03 – Image Compression by Bit-plane Slicing

Introduction:

In this project we are going to load an image file into MATLAB and slice it bitwise into 8 planes, then try to compress it by eliminating the unnecessary bits to reduce the whole image size.

Each digital image consists basically of a number of pixels (rows x columns), each pixel has a specific intensity value, which is stored on the computer’s memory as a binary number.

Usually this binary number consists of 8 digits; for example 11111111 represents white, while 00000000 represents black.

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* The full article can be found in the attached PDF file.

* The attached source code and the used image can be found in the attached ZIP file.

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winzip Digital Image Processing 3.pdf