Performance analysis of distributed implementations of a fractal image compression algorithm

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 357-386

  Jackson, David Jeff ^a   Tinney, Greg Scott ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FRACTALS; IMAGE CODING; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE;

FRACTAL TRANSFORM ENCODING; IMAGE SEGMENTS; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL ENCODING; SIERPINSKY TRIANGLE;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0030167489     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199606)8:5<357::AID-CPE228>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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