A Survey on various image compression techniques

Abstract

Image compression address the problem of reducing the amount of data required to represent a digital image with no significant loss of information. Storage problems, plus the desire to exchange images over the Internet, have lead to a large interest in image compression algorithms. There are basically two types of compression techniques. One is Lossless Compression and other is Lossy Compression Technique. Comparing the performance of compression technique is difficult unless identical data sets and performance measures are used. Some of these techniques are obtained good for certain applications like security technologies. Some techniques perform well for certain classes of data and poorly from others thus techniques could be applied for certain data sets.