In this work, we present coding techniques that enable progressive transmis
sion when trellis coded quantization (TCQ) is applied to wavelet coefficien
ts. A method for approximately inverting TCQ in the absence of least signif
icant bits is developed. Results are presented using different rate allocat
ion strategies and different entropy coders. The proposed wavelet-TCQ coder
yields excellent coding efficiency while supporting progressive modes anal
ogous to those available in JPEG.