Stream-Based Visually Lossless Data Compression Applying Variable Bit-Length ADPCM Encoding.

Video applications have become one of the major services in the engineering field, which are implemented by server-client systems connected via the Internet, broadcasting services for mobile devices such as smartphones and surveillance cameras for security. Recently, the majority of video encoding mechanisms to reduce the data rate are mainly lossy compression methods such as the MPEG format. However, when we consider special needs for high-speed communication such as display applications and object detection ones with high accuracy from the video stream, we need to address the encoding mechanism without any loss of pixel information, called visually lossless compression.