Michael Barnsley led development of fractal compression in 1987, and was granted several patents on the technology.

There is a video library for fractal compression.

At high compression ratios fractal compression may offer superior quality.

It is typically used in fractal compression.

With fractal compression, encoding is extremely computationally expensive because of the search used to find the self-similarities.

Fractal compression is a lossy compression method for digital images, based on fractals.

Interest in fractal compression seems to be waning, due to recent theoretical analysis showing a comparative lack of effectiveness of such methods.

An inherent feature of fractal compression is that images become resolution independent after being converted to fractal code.

Fractal compression.

He'd had to teach himself about superconducting metals, fractal compression, quantum qubits, and high-flow ion exchange.

During the 1990s Iterated Systems Inc. and its partners expended considerable resources to bring fractal compression to video.

The most widely known practical fractal compression algorithm was invented by Barnsley and Alan Sloan.

This first practical fractal compression system for digital images resembles a vector quantization system using the image itself as the codebook.

Kramer co-developed SoftVideo based on fractal compression and he also claimed to work on a transmission project that would result in faster-than-light speed communications.

Michael Fielding Barnsley is a British mathematician, researcher and an entrepreneur who has worked on fractal compression; he holds several patents on the technology.

In fractal interpolation, an image is encoded into fractal codes via fractal compression, and subsequently decompressed at a higher resolution.

It hadn't been buried under the absolute noise of a onetime pad, or the self-similar swirls of fractal compression, so it was neither top-secret nor very large.

Michael Barnsley and Alan Sloan formed Iterated Systems Inc. in 1987 which was granted over 20 additional patents related to fractal compression.

At common compression ratios, up to about 50:1, Fractal compression provides similar results to Discrete cosine transform algorithms such as JPEG .

While this asymmetry has so far made it impractical for real time applications, when video is archived for distribution from disk storage or file downloads fractal compression becomes more competitive.

The collage theorem in fractal compression proves that, for many images, there exists a relatively small description of a function that, when iteratively applied to any starting image, rapidly converges on the desired image.

A major breakthrough for Iterated Systems Inc. was the automatic fractal transform process which eliminated the need for human intervention during compression as was the case in early experimentation with fractal compression technology.

After this he obtained a night school degree in aerospace engineering, he worked on the MX missile guidance system for a contractor of the US Department of Defense and later in the computer industry on fractal compression, facial recognition systems, and advanced communications.

Other methods, such as fractal compression, matching pursuit and the use of a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) have been the subject of some research, but are typically not used in practical products (except for the use of wavelet coding as still-image coders without motion compensation).

Manfred mumbles incoherently: "a mass of propagating decision trees, fractal compression, lots of synaptic junctions lubricated with friendly endorphins-" Across the room, the bootleg pharmacopoeia is cranking up to manufacture some heavy tranquillisers: Monica heads for the kitchen to get something for him to drink them in.