Object-based image coding

Abstract

Object-based compression methods describe images in terms of a set of regions (a partition), and of some information for each region to be used by the receiver to reconstruct the image (its texture). Different techniques can be used to define the partition as well as for coding it and its texture. In this paper we propose a general multi-resolution segmentation algorithm which can deal with many different types of images selecting the appropriated criteria. We also review most outstanding techniques for coding in this context.