High-performance compression of visual information - A tutorial review part I: Still pictures

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 976-1011

  Egger, Olivier ^a   Fleury, Pascal ^b   Ebrahimi, Touradj ^b   Kunt, Murat ^b  

^a Oasya SA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compression; Image processing; JPEG; MPEG; Standards; Still pictures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION PICTURES; STANDARDS;

CODEWORD ASSIGNMENT; MOTION PICTURE EXPERT GROUP; MOTION PICTURE SEQUENCES; STILL IMAGE CODING;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0032633581     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.763312     Document Type: Review

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