Overview: .Still Image Compression on Parallel ComputerArchitectures. investigates the application of parallel-processingtechniques to digital image compression. Digital image compression isused to reduce the number of bits required to store an image incomputer memory and/or transmit it over a communication link. Over thepast decade advancements in technology have spawned many applicationsof digital imaging, such as photo videotex, desktop publishing,graphics arts, color facsimile, newspaper wire phototransmission andmedical imaging. For many other contemporary applications, such asdistributed
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