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Pratt, W. K.

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Performance measures for transform data coding.

This paper develops performance criteria for evaluating transform data coding schemes under computational constraints. Computational constraints that conform with the proposed basis-restricted model give rise to suboptimal coding efficiency characterized by a rate-distortion relation R(D) similar in form to the theoretical rate-distortion function. Numerical examples of this performance measure are presented for Fourier, Walsh, Haar, and Karhunen-Loeve transforms.

Pearl, J.

Spatial transform coding of color images.

The application of the transform-coding concept to the coding of color images represented by three primary color planes of data is discussed. The principles of spatial transform coding are reviewed and the merits of various methods of color-image representation are examined. A performance analysis is presented for the color-image transform-coding system. Results of a computer simulation of the coding system are also given. It is shown that, by transform coding, the chrominance content of a color image can be coded with an average of 1.0 bits per element or less without serious degradation. If luminance coding is also employed, the average rate reduces to about 2.0 bits per element or less.

Pratt, W. K.

COPTRAN - A method of optimum communication systems design

Single set of mathematical expressions describes system cost and probability of error of data transmission in terms of four basic parameters in the link equation. A Lagrange multiplier sets up equations whose solutions yield the optimum values for system design considerations and weight and cost values.

Brinkman, K. L.

Hadamard transform image coding.

Fourier transform algorithm introduction leading to image coding technique with image transformed by Hadamard matrix operator

Andrews, H. C.