In this paper, we propose a new compression algorithm for vector-based image representations as used in Postscript or Macromedia Flash. We present a joint optimization method combining geometric simplification techniques and quantization in a single frame-work. Both optimization techniques are usually used indepen-dently. We propose an optimal algorithm in the operational rate-distortion sense to solve the problem. We show that our method gives up to 10 times higher compression ratios for the same quality compared to standard compression methods such as trellis coding.
By: Laurent L Balmelli
Published in: RC22306 in 2001
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