Browsing by Subject "Data Compression"

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Content-based retrieval of historical Ottoman documents stored as textual images
(IEEE, 2004) Şaykol, E.; Sinop, A. K.; Güdükbay, Uğur; Ulusoy, Özgür; Çetin, A. Enis
There is an accelerating demand to access the visual content of documents stored in historical and cultural archives. Availability of electronic imaging tools and effective image processing techniques makes it feasible to process the multimedia data in large databases. In this paper, a framework for content-based retrieval of historical documents in the Ottoman Empire archives is presented. The documents are stored as textual images, which are compressed by constructing a library of symbols occurring in a document, and the symbols in the original image are then replaced with pointers into the codebook to obtain a compressed representation of the image. The features in wavelet and spatial domain based on angular and distance span of shapes are used to extract the symbols. In order to make content-based retrieval in historical archives, a query is specified as a rectangular region in an input image and the same symbol-extraction process is applied to the query region. The queries are processed on the codebook of documents and the query images are identified in the resulting documents using the pointers in textual images. The querying process does not require decompression of images. The new content-based retrieval framework is also applicable to many other document archives using different scripts.
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Issues in developing a very low bit rate videophone coder
(1993) Mickos, Roy Mikael
The issues of a suitable transmission image size, general behaviour, and buffer control of a very low bitrate videophone video signal coder to be used in future mobile and public switched telephone networks are addressed. A software simulator of the coder was built so that the performance of the coder and the various alternative methods under consideration could be tested by subjective evaluation. In the case of transmission image size a clear choice between the two alternatives, QCIF and NCIF. is achieved: QCIF. The behaviour of the coder is explained on the basis of some statistical parameters extracted from it. With head-and-shoulders sequences without buffer regulation the coder is succesfiil in allocating bits to those regions in the image containing the most important information. Finally, the buffer control scheme of the coder is analyzed and an alternative method, based on framewise analysis of the bits created for that frame, is developed which is shown to be better than the original.
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Simulation of DigiCipher, an HDTV system proposal
(1991) Öktem, Levent
In this thesis, the digital video encoder-decoder parts of an American HDTV system proposal, DigiCipher^^'^ is simulated in an image sequencer, based on the system description sheets. Numerical and subjective performances are tested, by observing and making calculations on the decoder outputs of the system simulation. The performance tests show that the image quality does not have HDTV quality. Considering the very good picture quality in the demonstrations of the designer company (General Instruments), it is suspected that the description sheets do not mention all of the data compression methods used in the system.