A segmentation-based predictive multiresolution image coder

Recursive rectilinear tessellations like quadtree are widely used in image coding, but a regular tessellation, despite simple geometry, may not suit image compression because it is too rigid to reflect the scene structure of an image. The paper presents a new image pyramid formed by adaptive, tree-structured segmentation to be a framework of a predictive multiresolution image coder. Subjectively appealing compression results are obtained at …