Successive Refinement of Information

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 269-275

  Cover, Thomas M ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

multiuser information theory; progressive transmission; Rate distortion; refinement; squared error distortion; tree structure

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING - SIGNAL ENCODING;

MULTIUSER INFORMATION THEORY; PROGRESSIVE TRANSMISSION; RATE DISTORTION; SQUARED ERROR DISTORTION; SUCCESSIVE INFORMATION REFINEMENT; TREE STRUCTURE;

SIGNAL DISTORTION;

EID: 0026120037     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.75242     Document Type: Article

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