A scalable MPEG-4 wavelet-based visual texture compression system with optimized memory organization

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 348-357

  Vanhoof, Bart ^a   Nachtergaele, Lode ^a   Lafruit, Gauthier ^a   Peón, Mercedes ^a   Masschelein, Bart ^a   Catthoor, Francky ^a,b   Bormans, Jan ^a   Bolsens, Ivo ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Design methodology; Image compression; Multimedia systems; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CD-ROM; DATA TRANSFER; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE CODING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WEBSITES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES; EMBEDDED ZERO TREE ALGORITHM; WAVELET-BASED COMPRESSION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0037608887     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.811427     Document Type: Article

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