The authors present a sound, practical approach to information prioritization in progressive image transmission. The method, suitable for a variety of imaging applications from consumer products to the defense, publishing, science, and law enforcement industries, first states some general principles that the solution must obey and then derives the solution that satisfies exactly those principles. The text is intended for graduate students as well as engineers and research scientists in the field of image coding.
Contents
- Preface
- Rationality in Progressive Transmission
- Coder Evaluation Procedure
- Visual Distinctness of Prioritized Data
- Integration of Rationality and Cooperation
- Conflict and Cooperation at Very Low Bit Rates
- Justice in Rational Transmission
- Appendix A: Fundamentals in Embedded Zerotree Wavelet Coding
- Appendix B: REWIC Algorithm
- Appendix C: Information Theoretic Measure
- Appendix D: Best Achievable Compression Ratio
- Bibliography
- Index
