title: Region-based fractal image compression.
abstract: A fractal coder partitions an image into blocks that are coded via self-references to other parts of the image itself. We present a fractal coder that derives highly image-adaptive partitions and corresponding fractal codes in a time-efficient manner using a region-merging approach. The proposed merging strategy leads to improved rate-distortion performance compared to previously reported pure fractal coders, and it is faster than other state-of-the-art fractal coding methods.
authors.affiliation: Comput. and Commun. Res. Labs., NEC Eur. Ltd., Heidelberg. Hannes.Hartenstein@ccrle.nec.de
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hartenstein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruhl
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Saupe