Contour simplification for segmented still image and video coding: Algorithms and experimental results

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 335-357

  Christopoulos, V A ^a   De Muynck, P ^a   Cornelis, J ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bit rate control; Contour simplification; Regions classification; Segmented image coding; Shape adaptive discrete cosine transform; Weakly separable basis functions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY;

CONTOUR SIMPLIFICATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0033078155     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-5965(98)00017-4     Document Type: Article

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