Grayscale Image Compression using Bit Plane Slicing and Developed RLE Algorithms

Abstract: New suggested RLE compression algorithms to compress grayscale images with bitplane slicing technique to reduce the size of the encoded data by separating image into 8 binary layers, then use our modified RLE algorithms to compress bitplanes. Our modified algorithms designed perfectly to compress bitplane. The proposed methods achieved very good compression ratio especially with the MSB layer.

Keywords: image compression; bitplane; quantization.