Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT)[1] is an imagecompression algorithm that exploits the inherent similarities across the subbands in a wavelet decomposition of an image. The algorithm was developed by Brazilian engineer Amir Said with William A. Pearlman in 1996.[1]
General description
The algorithm codes the most important wavelet transformcoefficients first, and transmits the bits so that an increasingly refined copy of the original image can be obtained progressively.