Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In image processing, the Wavelet Transform (WT) islargely used. However, time requirements for large two-dimensionalimage transforms are hard to meet with sequential implementations.Parallel implementation decreases the processing time and allowsto reach a real-time operation in image coding. Unfortunately,this parallel coding increases the hardware complexity.We propose an optical implementation of the JPEG2000 compressionusing a special implementation of the WT. Special attention ispaid to propose a simple all optical setup carrying out theoptical implementation of JPEG2000 compression for gray-levelimages. Finally, an adaptation of our technique to colored imagesis proposed. Wb