Lapped Transforms in a JPEG 2000 Coder

JPEG-2000 is the latest image coding standard and is based on wavelet transforms and dyadic spectral decompositions. We have adapted the JPEG-2000 image coder for use with uniform transforms, by replacing the wavelet stage by lapped transforms. We set code-blocks that do not cross subband boundaries and encode the lapped transform coefficients directly as if they were wavelet ones. Results indicate a sizeable gain in PSNR for a number of images and corroborate previous results indicating typical gains of lapped transforms over wavelets in image compression.