This paper provides a solution to reduce the number of comparisons in encoding stage of fractal image compression. The proposed method minimizes the number of comparison by categorizing me blocks into types and comparing the blocks classified as me sa...
This paper provides a solution to reduce the number of comparisons in encoding stage of fractal image compression. The proposed method minimizes the number of comparison by categorizing me blocks into types and comparing the blocks classified as me same type and located in the neighborhood. The domain blocks are searched in a spiral order starting from the block located at the same position with the range block. The proposed method has been test with natural images. The experimental results have shown that the proposed algorithm reduces the compression time by 50% on average compared to the conventional fractal encoding algorithms, while maintaining image qualify of PSNR 30dB.