Dynamic contrast-based quantization for lossy wavelet image compression

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-410

  Chandler, Damon M ^a   Hemami, Sheila S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Human visual system (HVS); Image compression; JPEG 2000; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; IMAGE DISTORTION; LOSSY WAVELET IMAGE COMPRESSION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MULTIMEDIA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 17444432249     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2004.841196     Document Type: Article

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