In many application contexts, like statistical databases, scientific databases, query optimizers, OLAP, and so on, data are often summarized into synopses of aggregate values. Su...
Francesco Buccafurri, Filippo Furfaro, Domenico Sa...
Multiple description codes are data compression algorithms designed with the goal of minimizing the distortion caused by data loss in packet-based or diversity communications syst...
Nedeljko Varnica, Michael Fleming, Michelle Effros
Classical linear wavelet representations of images have the drawback that they are not well-suited to represent edge information. To overcome this problem, nonlinear multiresoluti...
The Mixed Raster Content (MRC) document compression standard (ITU T.44) specifies a multi-layer multi-resolution representation of a compound document. The model is very efficie...
This paper presents a new technique to reduce the storage cost of high quality 3D video. In 3D video [12], a sequence of 3D objects represents scenes in motion. Every frame is com...