JEE_V1_N3_RP2 K. Venkata Ramanaiah K. Lal Kishore P. Gopal Reddy Journal on Electrical Engineering 2230 – 7176 1 3 25 35 Multi layered neural network, image compression, reconfigurability, iteration of training Multi layered neural network (NN) architecture is proposed for compression of high-resolution image, the architecture is implemented on FPGA as it supports reconfigurability. The architecture considered has N-M-N (64-4-64) multi-layered NN structure, which achieves compression ratio of (CR) 93.75. Compression ratio is reconfigurable with change in M. The architecture is generalized and can achieve compression ratios from 2 to 99, which is reconfigurable. Performance of any neural network architecture for compression depends on training; this architecture considers general back propagation training. The training is performed offline, with known set of image samples consisting most of the properties of any standard image. The Mean Square Error (MSE) computed during every iteration of training is scaled and fed back into the network to update the weight matrix at specific points, this reduces the training time. As the weight matrix occupies more space for storage, the redundancies in the weight matrix are exploited and a storage space is created with minimum memory requirement on FPGA. Compression Ratios obtained demonstrate performance superiority of the network as compared with JPEG compression standard. Inserting noise on the compressed sets of data, tests the network performance. The hardware complexity, area requirement, speed is compared and discussed; there is a saving of 22% of space on FPGA, with 40% increase in speed, and reducing the power by 12%. The major advantage of this architecture is its reconfigurability on the architecture size that achieves different compression ratios. January - March 2008 Copyright © 2008 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=418