Title :
A better tree-structured vector quantizer
Author :
Wu, Xiaolin ; Zhang, Kaizhong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
A new vector quantizer permits logarithmic-time encoding and yet performs better than the locally optimal quantizers generated by the LBG algorithm. The success is credited to an elaborated tree-structured optimization process in the codebook design
Keywords :
data compression; encoding; optimisation; trees (mathematics); codebook design; logarithmic-time encoding; tree-structured optimization process; tree-structured vector quantizer; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Data compression; Data engineering; Decoding; Design optimization; Encoding; Iterative algorithms; Partitioning algorithms; Vector quantization;
Conference_Titel :
Data Compression Conference, 1991. DCC '91.
Conference_Location :
Snowbird, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-9202-2
DOI :
10.1109/DCC.1991.213341
