Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Tree (SPIHT) is considered one of the most important algorithms for reducing the size of the vision data collected by the sensor node within wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSN). The traditional SPIHT algorithm suffers from image coders complexity due to large memory requirement. This is an essential problem for the implementation on limited resource environments such as WMSN. The main objective of this paper is to introduce a listless pipelined strip based SPIHT for WMSN to reduce system complexity and minimize processing time and memory usage. The proposed algorithm is implemented using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) lifting-based instead of DWT convolution-based filter. The experimental results show the superiority of the proposed algorithm in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) which reaches 1 dB for all bit rates. In addition, the memory requirement is reduced to 71% with 27% of energy saving. 
A modified listless strip based SPIHT for wireless multimedia sensor networks