Optimizing block-thresholding segmentation for multilayer compression of compound images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1461-1471

  De Queiroz, Ricardo L ^a,b   Fan, Zhigang ^a,b   Tran, Trac D ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Document compression; Mixed raster content; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPOUND IMAGE MULTILAYER COMPRESSION; MIXED RASTER CONTENT; RATE DISTORTION CURVES;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0034258712     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.862619     Document Type: Article

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