Progressive Hierarchical Encoding for Image Transmission in Underwater Environments

Oceans

Category: Conferences Publication Date: October, 2022 Editor(s): IEEE-OES ISBN: 978-1-6654-6809-1/22 Location: Hampton Roads (USA, Virtual)

This paper proposes a method to progressively encode underwater images. The image information is split into several, very small, parts called chunks that can be easily transmitted using unreliable, low bandwidth, underwater communication channels. The receiver can reconstruct the original image with increasing quality after each chunk is received up to a perfect, lossless, reconstruction.