Lossless Image Compression Schemes: A Review

Abstract

Data compression refers to the process of representation of data using fewer number of bits. Data compression can be lossless or lossy. There are many schemes developed and used to perform either lossless or lossy compression. Lossless data compression allows the original data be conveniently reconstructed from the compressed data while lossy compression allow only an approximate of the original data to be constructed. The type of data to compressed can be classified as image data, textual data, audio data or even video content. Various researches are being carried out in the area of image compression. This paper presents various literatures in field of data compression and the techniques used to compress image using lossless type of compression. In conclusion, the paper reviewed some schemes used to compress an image using a single schemes or combination of two or more schemes methods.