Visual data compression for multimedia applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1109-1124

  Ebrahimi, Touradj ^a   Kunt, Murat ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

H.261; H.263; Image compression; Interactivity; JPEG; MPEG; Video compression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FRACTALS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

JOINT PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (JPEG) STANDARDS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS; STILL IMAGE CODING; VISUAL DATA COMPRESSION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032094880     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.687832     Document Type: Article

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