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    This document discusses image compression methods and provides context around their inclusion in the book. It notes that 30 methods are described but they were selected based on the documentation available to the author. The treatment of the methods is uneven for the same reason. There is no comparison of methods because they are designed for specific image types and a full software evaluation was not practical. The methods are not arranged in any particular order due to the difficulty of reasonable sorting.

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    This document discusses image compression methods and provides context around their inclusion in the book. It notes that 30 methods are described but they were selected based on the documentation available to the author. The treatment of the methods is uneven for the same reason. There is no comparison of methods because they are designed for specific image types and a full software evaluation was not practical. The methods are not arranged in any particular order due to the difficulty of reasonable sorting.

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    4

    Image Compression
    The first part of this chapter discusses the basic features and types of digital images
    and
    the main approaches to image compression. This is followed by a description of about
    30 different compression methods. The author would like to start with the following
    observations:
    1. Why were these particular methods included in the book, while others were left
    out? The simple answer is: Because of the documentation available to the author.
    Image compression methods that are well documented were included. Methods that
    are
    proprietary, or whose documentation was not clear to the author, were left out.
    2. The treatment of the various methods is uneven. This, again, reflects the
    documentation
    available to the author. Some methods have been documented by their developers
    in great detail, and this is reflected in this chapter. Where no detailed documentation
    was available for a compression algorithm, only its basic principles are outlined here.
    3. There is no attempt to compare the various methods described here. This is
    because
    most image compression methods have been designed for a specific type of image,
    and
    also because of the practical difficulties of getting all the software and adapting it to
    run
    on the same platform.
    4. The compression methods described in this chapter are not arranged in any
    particular
    order. After much thought and many trials, the author gave up any hope of sorting
    the
    compression methods in any reasonable way. Readers looking for any particular
    method
    may consult the table of contents and the detailed index to easily locate it.
    A digital image is a rectangular array of dots, or picture elements, arranged in m
    rows and n columns. The expression m×n is called the resolution of the image, and
    the
    dots are called pixels (except in the cases of fax images and video compression,
    where
    they are referred to as pels). The term “resolution” is sometimes also used to
    indicate
    the number of pixels per unit length of the image. Thus, dpi stands for dots per inch.
    For the purpose of image compression it is useful to distinguish the following types of
    images:

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