{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/microshift-an-efficient-image-compression","title":"Microshift: An Efficient Image Compression Algorithm for Hardware","arxiv_id":"2104.09820","date":"2021-04-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Bo Zhang","Pedro V. Sander","Chi-Ying Tsui","Amine Bermak"],"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an image compression algorithm called Microshift. We employ an algorithm hardware co-design methodology, yielding a hardware-friendly compression approach with low power consumption. In our method, the image is first micro-shifted, then the sub-quantized values are further compressed. Two methods, the FAST and MRF model, are proposed to recover the bit-depth by exploiting the spatial correlation of natural images. Both methods can decompress images progressively. Our compression algorithm compresses images to 1.25 bits per pixel on average with PSNR of 33.16 dB, outperforming other on-chip compression algorithms. Then, we propose a hardware architecture and implement the algorithm on an FPGA and ASIC. The results on the VLSI design further validate the low hardware complexity and high power efficiency, showing our method is promising, particularly for low-power wireless vision sensor networks.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09820v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.09820v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"microshift-an-efficient-image-compression","repo_url":"https://github.com/zhangmozhe/microshift_compression","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"data-compression","task_name":"Data Compression"},{"task_slug":"image-compression","task_name":"Image Compression"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}