Making copies or originals of nature: a feature-based compressed fractal encoding of natural objects and its evaluation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3456, Issue , 1998, Pages 99-105

  Hocevar, Erwin ^a   Kropatsch, Walter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Compression; Feature oriented; Fractal; IFS encoding; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COSINE TRANSFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FRACTALS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

COLLAGE THEOREM; FRACTAL ENCODING; ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEM; SELF SIMILARITY;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0038297445     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.330358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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