Reducing false contours in quantized color images

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-242

  Joy, Gregory ^a   Xiang, Zhigang ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; IMAGE QUALITY; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

FALSE CONTOURS; FEEDBACK BASED QUANTIZATION; QUANTIZED COLOR IMAGES;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030100985     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0097-8493(95)00098-4     Document Type: Article

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