FRACTAL COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE FOR COLOR IMAGES USING VARIABLE BLOCK

The main intention of Fractal Image Compression is to reduce the size of image and maintain good level of their reconstructed image. A major issue in Fractal Image Compression is decrease in image quality, compression ratio and PSNR. To overcome these issues we employ Fractal transformation with entropy coding. There are two phases in the proposed approach. In the first phase color images are separated into three RGB planes using variable range block size. In second phase by applying the inverse transform and iterative functions the image is restored. It is observed that the results are improving in fractal compression for both gray images as well as color images. In this work high CR and PSNR is observed compared to fixed block range and other existing methods. The proposed work yields better CR of 20 and high PSNR.