Four-dimensional matrix Walsh transform for lossless compression of color video

This article presents a coding method for the lossless compression of color video.In the proposed method,four-dimensional matrix Walsh transform(4D-M-Walsh-T)is used for color video coding.The whole n frames of a color video sequence are divided into '3D-blocks' which are image width(row component),image height(column component),image width(vertical component)in a color video sequence,and adjacency(depth component)of n frames(Y,U or V)of the video sequence.Similar to the method of 2D-Walsh transform,4D-M-Walsh-T is 4D sub-matrices,and the size of each sub-matrix is n.The method can fully utilize correlations to encode for lossless compression and reduce the redundancy of color video,such as adjacent pixels in one frame or different frames of a video at the same time.Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve higher lossless compression ratio(CR)for the color video sequence.