A novel fractal technique for color image compression

A new approach of color image compression using relative fractal coding has been presented in this paper. In relative fractal coding, given the fractal code of a reference image, one can generate a relative fractal code of any other image of same size. This method is found to be extremely useful for color image compression as the subsequent color components are highly correlated. It produces fractal code where the inter-component spectral changes are coded and the convergence is guaranteed for individual components. Several experimental results are also presented which are found to be comparable with other fractal color coding techniques.