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Introduction

Module by: Nick Kingsbury

Summary: This module is an introduction about image coding.

Image Coding (often more correctly known as Image Compression) is the art / science of representing images with the least information (no. of bits) consistent with achieving an acceptable image quality / usefulness.

In order to do this, we try to take advantage of:

  1. Physiological characteristics of human vision;
  2. Statistical characteristics of typical images;
  3. Efficient binary source coding methods.
We shall consider these in turn.

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