Importance prioritisation in JPEG 2000 for improved interpretability

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1005-1028

  Nguyen, Anthony ^a   Chandran, Vinod ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image coding; Interpretability; JPEG 2000; NIIRS; Region of interest (ROI)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DECISION MAKING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

INTERPRETABILITY; JPEG 2000; NIIRS; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 10044236846     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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