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Information efficiency in visual communicationThis paper evaluates the quantization process in the context of the end-to-end performance of the visual-communication channel. Results show that the trade-off between data transmission and visual quality revolves around the information in the acquired signal, not around its energy. Improved information efficiency is gained by frequency dependent quantization that maintains the information capacity of the channel and reduces the entropy of the encoded signal. Restorations with energy bit-allocation lose both in sharpness and clarity relative to restorations with information bit-allocation. Thus, quantization with information bit-allocation is preferred for high information efficiency and visual quality in optimized visual communication.
Document ID
19930069030
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Alter-Gartenberg, Rachel
(Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk; NASA, Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Rahman, Zia-Ur
(Science and Technology Corp. Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: In: Visual information processing II; Proceedings of the Meeting, Orlando, FL, Apr. 14-16, 1993 (A93-53022 23-63)
Publisher: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Subject Category
Cybernetics
Accession Number
93A53027
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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