Transmitting a compressed image

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Hana Elenany
Hana Elenany on 17 Oct 2015
Commented: Walter Roberson on 21 Oct 2015
I have used a wavelet-based compression technique for compressing an image. The code is working successfully and three images are displayed: original, compressed and decompressed. I want to transmit the compressed image over wireless OFDM channel. For this purpose, the compressed image must be converted to ones and zeros. How can I do this?

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 17 Oct 2015
de2bi(X) or dec2bin(X)-'0'
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Hana Elenany
Hana Elenany on 20 Oct 2015
I want to transmit them over wireless channel, but as I told you their size in bytes is larger than the size of the original image in bytes, thus there is no benefit from compression!!!
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 21 Oct 2015
The result of the float2bin File Exchange contribution is a vector of characters '0' and '1'.
MATLAB has no "bit" datatype so there is no way in MATLAB to index individual bits in an array. Therefore when data is converted to bit vector, it is necessary to represent each bit as a storage element, potentially uint8 (one byte per bit represented) or char (two bytes per bit represented, but prints out more nicely) or double (8 bytes per bit represented). With any of these methods, there is only one bit of useful information represented per storage element.
When you go to do the transmission in OFDM, you need to arrange so that only the "useful" portion of the representation is transmitted. The method of doing that is going to depend upon how your OFDM routine expects the inputs that it translates to waveforms (or whatever it is that comes out the other side of an OFDM encoding.) And as we do not know what OFDM encoding code you are using, we can only give general advice on what you need to do.

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