Fast DCT Based image compression Using FPGA

Abstract: Image and video compression is one of the major components used in video –telephony, videoconferencing and multimedia –related applications. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a fully pipelined architecture for implementing the JPEG image compression standard. The architecture exploits the principles of pipelining and parallelism in order to obtain high speed and throughput. This design aimed to be implemented in Spartan-3E X C3S500E FPGA.

Keywords: Compression, discrete cosine transforms (DCT), FPGA, Huffman Encoding, JPEG, Quantization