Clonal image compression method

The invention discloses an immune clone image compression method mainly solving the problems of low compression speed and compression ratio and unclear compression images of the prior art. The immuneclone image compression method comprises the following implementation steps: (1) selecting a natural image with clear texture and high contrast as a training sample, dividing the training sample intoblocks and extracting an average value and a residential vector of the training sample; (2) respectively using an immune clone clustering algorithm to the average value and the residential vector of the training sample to generate an average value code book and a residential vector code book; (3) dividing a testing image into blocks and solving an average value and a residential vector of the testing image; (4) using the code book generated in the step (2) to quantize and encode the average vector value and the residential vector of the testing image; (5) transmitting quantized and encoded data to a client; (6) decoding the data received at the client according to the code books; and (7) recovering the decoded data into the image. The invention can be used for the fields of image compression, image transmission, and the like under a constrained bandwidth condition in third-generation mobile communication.