A parallel data compression algorithm for store or transmission purposes based on run length encoding and elegant pairing function. To achieve higher compression ratios, the proposed method encodes the run length encoding matrix through a pairing function. Because a pairing function is a unique and a bijective function, it is possible to recover the data without losing information. This implementation is really fast using vectors with high sizes.

• An Enhanced Run Length Encoding for Image Compression based on Discrete Wavelet Transform:
• RLE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding
• Elegant Pairing Function: http://szudzik.com/ElegantPairing.pdf

This implementation uses the template library of CUDA and lambdas of C++. Also, we implemented a struct for RLE.

• Thrusth: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/thrust/index.html

    thrusth::

    #include <thrust/device_vector.h>
    #include <thrust/host_vector.h>
    #include <thrust/transform.h>

    struct RLE {
        int x; // Value
        int y; // Number of repetitions
    };

1. Compile

    nvcc main.cu -std=c++11 --expt-extended-lambda

2. Generate CPU array of size 'SIZE'

    #define SIZE 10000

    thrust::host_vector<RLE> rle(SIZE);

3. Initialize host_vector. Import your RLE vectors. For example purposes the rle vector is filled with rand values.

  for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) {
    rle[i].x = rand() % 100;
    rle[i].y = rand() % 100;
  }

4. Define a device_vector containing the run length encoder

    thrust::device_vector<RLE> d_rle = rle;

5. Compress on GPU

    thrust::device_vector<int> arrayCompressedDevice =  gpuEncoding(d_rle);

6. Copy the GPU to CPU for store or transmission purposes.

    thrust::host_vector<int> arrayCompressedHost = arrayCompressedDevice;

7. Decompression on GPU

    thrust::device_vector<RLE> res_rle_gpu = gpuDecoding(arrayCompressedDevice);

8. Copy the GPU vector to CPU. Since, this algorithm is a lossless compression algorithm, the decoded vector must be similar to the original vector.

    thrust::host_vector<RLE> arrayDecompressedHost = res_rle_gpu;

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

• Article "An Enhanced Run Length Encoding for Image Compression based on Discrete Wavelet Transform" *

• Proposed Enhanced Run Length Encoding:

  • Adolfo Solis-Rosas

• Elegant Pairing Function

  • Matthew Szudzik