Conventional method for fractal image decoding requires high-degree computational complexity in decoding propocess, because of iterated contractive transformations applied to whole range blocks. In this paper, we propose a fast decoding algorithm of f...
Conventional method for fractal image decoding requires high-degree computational complexity in decoding propocess, because of iterated contractive transformations applied to whole range blocks. In this paper, we propose a fast decoding algorithm of fractal image using data depence in order to reduce computational complexity for iterated contractive transformations. Range of reconstruction image is divided into a region referenced with domain, called referenced range, and a region without reference to domain, called unreferenced range. The referenced range is converged with iterated contractive transformations, and the unreferenced range can be decoded by convergence of the referenced range. Thus the unreferenced range is called data dependence region. We show that the data dependence region can be deconded by one transformation when the referenced range is converged. Consequently, the proposed method reduces computational complexity in decoding process by executing iterated contractive transformations for the referenced range only.