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1988

University of Central Florida

Coding theory

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Three-Level Block Truncation Coding, Deborah Ann Lee Jan 1988

Three-Level Block Truncation Coding, Deborah Ann Lee

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Block Truncation Coding (BTC) techniques, to date, utilize a two-level image block code. This thesis presents and studies a new BTC method employing a three-level image coding technique. This new method is applied to actual image frames and compared with other well-known block truncation coding techniques.

The method separates an image into disjoint, rectangular regions of fixed size and finds the highest and lowest pixel values of each. Using these values, the image block pixel value range is calculated and divided into three equal sections. The individual image block pixels are then quantized according to the region into which their …