Abstract:
Fractal image compression is an efficient and effective
technique in image coding. This paper presents a novel
interactive progressive fractal decoding method, with which
the compressed file can be transmitted incrementally and
reconstructed progressively at users’ side. It requires no
modification to either encoder or decoder of any fractal
image compression algorithm. In addition, it also provides
the user-controlled decoding procedure with the inherited
fractal fast decoding feature. The experimental results
illustrated that the proposed progressive decoding method
can be applied directly to various fractal compression
techniques and especially favourable to applications where
the transmission bandwidth is of great concern.
