Wavelet Image Compression : A Heuristic Approach to Space Frequency Quantisation
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This report describes in detail the fourth year project work of Sara Brooks and Mohammad Tabbara. Our project specification asked us to simulate a wavelet-based image compression algorithm in software. We not only simulated such an algorithm, but used it to develop our own, fully functional image compression software of nearcommercial grade. The software is called “alchimage”.
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