Color LAR codec: A color image representation and compression scheme based on local resolution adjustment and self-extracting region representation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 974-987

  Déforges, Olivier ^a,b   Babel, Marie ^a,b   Bédat, Laurent ^b   Ronsin, Joseph ^b  

^a IEEE

^b INSA DE RENNES   (France)

Author keywords

Gray level and color images segmentation; Region representation based coding; Region of interest coding; Scalable coding

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SEMANTICS;

GRAY-LEVEL AND COLOR IMAGES SEGMENTATION; REGION REPRESENTATION-BASED CODING; REGION-OF-INTEREST CODING; SCALABLE CODING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 34548357137     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.897112     Document Type: Article

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