Successive Refinement of Information: Characterization of the Achievable Rates

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 253-259

  Rimoldi, Bixio ^a  

^a Electronics Systems and Signals Research Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

data compression; progressive transmission; Rate distortion; refinement

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL THEORY;

PROGRESSIVE TRANSMISSION; RATE DISTORTION THEORY; REFINEMENT;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0028261357     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.272493     Document Type: Article

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