JSE_V3_N3_RP6 G. Chenchu Krishnaiah T. Jayachandra Prasad M.N. Giri Prasad Journal on Software Engineering 2230 – 7168 3 3 64 72 Image and Image Compression, Wavelet and Wavelet Transform, Lifting and Adaptive Lifting Scheme, AWIC Algorithm The lifting scheme called second generation wavelets, can be designed to represent classical wavelets into lifting steps or to increase the number of vanishing moments of wavelets or to create different types of wavelets including adaptive and non-linear filters. The lifting scheme provides a new spatial intuition into the wavelet transform that simplifies the introduction of adaptivity. The adaptive transform is constructed based on adaptive prediction in a lifting scheme procedure. In this paper an attempt has been made to compare the proposed adaptive lifting scheme that works better than the Non- adaptive lifting scheme and its ability to achieve balance between image quality and computational complexity by using Adaptive Wavelet Image Compression (AWIC) algorithm. We demonstrate the power of our proposed adaptive lifting scheme with successful applications to image compression problems. Its application lossy compression is used to show the performance of the adaptive lifting scheme. January - March 2009 Copyright © 2009 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=196