Compressed Domain Processing of
JPEG-encoded Images

by:

B.C. Smith and L.A. Rowe
Computer Science Division - EECS
University of Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Abstract

This paper describes a new technique to implement operations on compressed digital video images that allows many image manipulation operations to be performed 50 to 100 times faster than the corresponding algorithms operating on uncompressed images. This is accomplished by performing the operations directly on the compressed data in the DCT domain. In this paper, we show how to transform image space operations into DCT space operations, we describe several representative algorithms in the DCT domain and report their performance.