title: A new image coding algorithm using variable-rate side-match finite-state vector quantization.
abstract: A new side-match vector quantizer, NewSMVQ, is presented in this paper. Three techniques are incorporated to improve the image quality, encoding speed, and bit rate for compressing images. The experimental result shows: i) the encoding time of NewSMVQ is almost 7 times faster than that of SMVQ (ordinary fixed-rate side-match vector quantizer) and CSMVQ (variable-rate SMVQ) and ii) NewSMVQ outperforms SMVQ and CSMVQ in terms of bit rate versus image quality tradeoffs.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Inf. Manage., Nat. Chin-Yi Inst. of Technol., Taichung.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chang