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visual perception threshold matching algorithm for real-time video compression

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Date Issued:
1992
Summary:
A barrier to the use of digital imaging is the vast storage requirements involved. One solution is compression. Since imagery is ultimately subject to human visual perception, it is worthwhile to design and implement an algorithm which performs compression as a function of perception. The underlying premise of the thesis is that if the algorithm closely matches visual perception thresholds, then its coded images contain only the components necessary to recreate the perception of the visual stimulus. Psychophysical test results are used to map the thresholds of visual perception, and develop an algorithm that codes only the image content exceeding those thresholds. The image coding algorithm is simulated in software to demonstrate compression of a single frame image. The simulation results are provided. The algorithm is also adapted to real-time video compression for implementation in hardware.
Title: A visual perception threshold matching algorithm for real-time video compression.
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Name(s): Noll, John M.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pandya, Abhijit S., Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1992
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 94 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: A barrier to the use of digital imaging is the vast storage requirements involved. One solution is compression. Since imagery is ultimately subject to human visual perception, it is worthwhile to design and implement an algorithm which performs compression as a function of perception. The underlying premise of the thesis is that if the algorithm closely matches visual perception thresholds, then its coded images contain only the components necessary to recreate the perception of the visual stimulus. Psychophysical test results are used to map the thresholds of visual perception, and develop an algorithm that codes only the image content exceeding those thresholds. The image coding algorithm is simulated in software to demonstrate compression of a single frame image. The simulation results are provided. The algorithm is also adapted to real-time video compression for implementation in hardware.
Identifier: 14857 (digitool), FADT14857 (IID), fau:11643 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.C.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1992.
Subject(s): Image processing--Digital techniques
Computer algorithms
Visual perception
Data compression (Computer science)
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