Fractal Image Compression: Theory and Application

By Yuval Fisher

Book Overview

"This book will be a great value to anyone interested in image compression... It is certainly the best description of fractal compression to date, and should be the reference in this field for several... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387942114
• ISBN13: 9780387942117
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Full coverage of fractal image compression

In my opinion, Fisher's book can serve as a very good tutorial to fractal image encoding. The first chapter, probably better known as the "SIGGRAPH '92 Course Notes", can be understand easily even by non-scientist and be used to code your own basic compression engine. The other chapters go more into detail and show how to develop your coder to a #1 compression engine. Unfortunately, you sometimes need to read between the math to get the necessary information. Anyway, after reading the book, I was able to create some nice code and to compress color images up to 1:25 ... 1:100 in seconds or minutes without problems !