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Fractal and wavelet image compression techniques /

Interest in image compression for internet and other multimedia applications has spurred research into compression techniques that will increase storage capabilities and transmission speed. This tutorial provides a practical guide to fractal and wavelet approaches--two techniques with exciting poten...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Welstead, Stephen T., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE Optical Engineering Press, ©1999.
Colección:Tutorial texts in optical engineering ; v. TT 40.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Images
  • The image compression problem
  • Information, entropy, and data modeling
  • Scalar and vector quantization
  • Transform methods
  • Color images
  • The focus of this book.
  • pt. I: Fractal image compression. 2. Iterated Function Systems
  • Iterated function systems as the motivation for fractal image compression
  • Metric spaces
  • Iterated function systems
  • Implementation of an iterated function system
  • Examples
  • 3. Fractal encoding of grayscale images
  • A metric space for grayscale images
  • Partitioned iterated function systems (PIFS)
  • Fractal image encoding
  • Image decoding
  • Storing the encoded image
  • Resolution independence
  • Operator representation of fractal image encoding
  • 4. Speeding up fractal encoding
  • Feature extraction
  • Domain classification
  • Other approaches for speeding up fractal encoding.
  • pt. II. Wavelet image compression. 5. Simple wavelets
  • Introduction
  • Averaging and detail
  • Scaling functions and wavelet functions
  • Multiresolution analysis
  • Normalization
  • Wavelet transform
  • Inverse wavelet transform
  • Wavelet transform in two dimensions
  • 6. Daubechies wavelets
  • Weighted averages and differences
  • Properties and conditions on the coefficients
  • Wavelet transform
  • Scaling functions and wavelet functions
  • Daubechies wavelets
  • Simple image compression with Daubechies wavelets
  • Other wavelet systems
  • 7. Wavelet image compression techniques
  • Introduction
  • Wavelet zerotrees
  • Hybrid fractal-wavelet coding
  • 8. Comparison of fractal and wavelet image compression
  • Rate distortion
  • Encoding speed
  • Larger images
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix A: Using the accompanying software
  • IFS System
  • IMG System: fractal image compression
  • WAV System: wavelet image compression
  • Appendix B: Utility Windows Library (UWL)
  • Windows programming
  • Utility Windows Library (UWL)
  • Windows programming references
  • Appendix C: Organization of the accompanying software source code
  • IFS System
  • IMG System
  • WAV System.