• DocumentCode
    1363900
  • Title

    Fast nearest neighbor search of entropy-constrained vector quantization

  • Author

    Johnson, Mary Holland ; Ladner, Richard E. ; Riskin, Eve A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    8/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1435
  • Lastpage
    1437
  • Abstract
    Entropy-constrained vector quantization (ECVQ) offers substantially improved image quality over vector quantization (VQ) at the cost of additional encoding complexity. We extend results in the literature for fast nearest neighbor search of VQ to ECVQ. We use a new, easily computed distance that successfully eliminates most codewords from consideration
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; entropy codes; image coding; search problems; vector quantisation; ECVQ; VQ; Voronoi diagram; encoding complexity; entropy-constrained vector quantization; fast nearest neighbor search; image coding; image quality; Computer science; Costs; Distortion measurement; Euclidean distance; Image coding; Image quality; Lagrangian functions; Nearest neighbor searches; Pattern recognition; Vector quantization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1057-7149
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/83.855438
  • Filename
    855438