*Result*: A Low-Complexity Lossless Compression Method Based on a Code Table for Infrared Images.

*Traditional JPEG series image compression algorithms have limitations in speed. To improve the storage and transmission of 14-bit/pixel images acquired by infrared line-scan detectors, a novel method is introduced for achieving high-speed and highly efficient compression of line-scan infrared images. The proposed method utilizes the features of infrared images to reduce image redundancy and employs improved Huffman coding for entropy coding. The improved Huffman coding addresses the low-probability long coding of 14-bit images by truncating long codes, which results in low complexity and minimal loss in the compression ratio. Additionally, a method is proposed to obtain a Huffman code table that bypasses the pixel counting process required for entropy coding, thereby improving the compression speed. The final implementation is a low-complexity lossless image compression algorithm that achieves fast encoding through simple table lookup rules. The proposed method results in only a 10% loss in compression performance compared to JPEG 2000, while achieving a 20-fold speed improvement. Compared to dictionary-based methods, the proposed method can achieve high-speed compression while maintaining high compression efficiency, making it particularly suitable for the high-speed, high-efficiency lossless compression of line-scan panoramic infrared images. The code table compression effect is 5% lower than the theoretical value. The algorithm can also be applied to analyze images with more bits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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