Optimizing Block-Threshold Segmentation for MRC Compression

Compound document images contain graphic or textual content along with pictures. They are a very common form of documents, found in magazines, brochures, web-sites, etc. We focus our attention on the mixed raster content (MRC) multi-layer approach for compound image compression. We study block thresholding as a mean to segment an image for MRC. An attempt is made to optimize the block threshold in a rate-distortion sense. Rate-distortion curves are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Zhigang Fan, Trac D. Tran
• Keywords: Compound Document Images, Compound Image Compression, ICIP 2000, Image Processing, Rate-distortion Curves