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Fractal Imaging

  • 1st Edition - March 7, 1997
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Wei-Kao Lu
  • Language: English

Fractal image compression technology, one of the major digital image compression techniques, has been a well kept secret for many years. While there are many books written on ot… Read more

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Fractal image compression technology, one of the major digital image compression techniques, has been a well kept secret for many years. While there are many books written on other technologies, such as DCT/JPEG andwavelet theory, few books touch the subject of fractal image compression. Fractal Imaging presents the logic, technology, and various uses of fractal imaging by analyzing a complete, usable fractal image representation system. This detailed work will be a must for engineers interested in building fractal imaging systems. It will also be of interest to the general public, showing how mathematics once again plays a central role in our lives, where art and science intersect.

Key features

Key Features

  • Modeling realistic images
  • Efficient, fractal image representation and enhancement
  • Data compression and coding algorithms with Sample C code
  • 16-page color insert

Readership

Students and practitioners of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, especially image processing engineers. Universities offering courses in image compression.

Table of contents

Introduction. Mathematical Foundation. Fractal Imagery Model. Image Spatial Mask. Spatial Parameters. Brightness and Contrast. Clustering Searching. Decompression Techniques. Image in Motion. Color Image. Entropy Copy. ImageryApplications. Further Enhancement. Fractal Image File Format. Future Fractal Imagery.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 2, 1997
  • Language: English

About the author

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Wei-Kao Lu

Affiliations and expertise
McMaster University