Subband Image Coding

This book concerns a new method of image data compression which weil may supplant the well-established block-transfonn methods that have been state-of-the­ art for the last 15 years. Subband image coding or SBC was first perfonned as such in 1985, and as the results became known at first through conference proceedings, and later through journal papers, the research community became excited about both the theoretical and practical aspects of this new approach. This excitement is continuing t...