Fractal Image Compression Using Iterated Transforms: Applications to DTED

Abstract

A review of iterated transformation image compression is presented. Generalization of simple iterated function system fractal generating algorithms to an automated iterated transformation algorithm used to compress greyscale images is reviewed. Compressed images from the Digital Terrain Elevation Database are presented, and compared with encodings using adaptive discrete cosine transformations, and mean residual vector quantization image compression techniques.... Data compression, Fractals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 11, 1992
Accession Number
ADA262724

Entities

People

  • E. W. Jacobs
  • R. D. Boss

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Access Time
  • Algorithms
  • Coding
  • Compression
  • Data Compression
  • Databases
  • Decoding
  • Elevation
  • Gray Scale
  • Grids
  • Image Compression
  • Image Processing
  • Mathematics
  • Military Communications
  • Reliability
  • Residuals

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.