Performance Evaluation of Compression Algorithms for Developing and Testing Industrial Imaging Systems

The development of many measurement and inspection systems of products based on real-time image processing can not be carried out totally in a laboratory due to the size or the temperature of the manufactured products. Those systems must be developed in successive phases. Firstly, the system is installed in the production line with only an operational service to acquire images of the products and other complementary signals. Next, a recording service of the image and signals must be developed and integrated in the system. Only after a large set of images of products is available, the development of the real-time image processing algorithms for measurement or inspection of the products can be accomplished under realistic conditions. Finally, the recording service is turned off or eliminated and the system operates only with the real-time services for the acquisition and processing of the images. This article presents a systematic performance evaluation of the image compression algorithms currently available to implement a real-time recording service. The results allow establishing a trade off between the reduction or compression of the image size and the CPU time required to get that compression level.

Authors:

• Daniel F. Garcia
• Julio Molleda
• Francisco Gonzalez
• Ruben Usamentiaga

Keywords:

• Lossless image compression
• codec performanceevaluation
• grayscale codec comparison
• real-time image recording.

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