Segmented image coding: Techniques and experimental results

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-80

  Christopoulos, C A ^a,d   Philips, W ^b   Skodras, A N ^c   Cornelis, J ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d ERICSSON RADIO SYSTEMS AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform; Orthogonal base functions; Segmented image coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

BLOCK TRANSFORM CODING (BTC) METHODS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM; ORTHOGONAL BASE FUNCTIONS; SEGMENTED IMAGE CODING (SIC);

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0031274107     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-5965(96)00040-9     Document Type: Article

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