OF THE DISSERTATION Image Coding Subject to Constraints by Tamás Frajka Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering (Communications Theory and Systems) University of California, San Diego, 2003 Professor Kenneth Zeger, Chair An image in digital format is a rectangular array of nonnegative integers, representing the light or color intensity values in the image. Its compression or coding is co...

Recently, the standardization of backward compatible JPEG image coding for high dynamic range image has been undertaken to establish an international standard called JPEG XT. Currently, three profiles called Profiles A, B, and C have been proposed for JPEG XT. Whereas all these profiles perform their image coding in the spatial domain, this paper proposes a new coding approach by manipulating D...