Variable resolution image compression based on a model of visual attention

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7495, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wei, Longsheng ^a   Sang, Nong ^a   Wang, Yuehuan ^a   Wang, Dengwei ^a   Wang, Fang ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Encoding; Image compression; Variable acuity; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED IMAGES; COMPRESSION RATIOS; COMPRESSION VARIABLES; ENCODING IMAGES; HIGH COMPRESSION RATIO; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-TO-LOW; NEW MODEL; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SALIENT OBJECTS; SALIENT REGIONS; VARIABLE RESOLUTION; VISUAL ATTENTION;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

EID: 71549171712     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.831307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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