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Image compression using content-based image similarity

  • US 6,625,319 B1
  • Filed: 03/30/1999
  • Issued: 09/23/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for compressing a set of images, including the steps of:

  • grouping the images into at least two clusters based on image similarity according to at least one similarity measure;

    identifying at least one representative image in each of the clusters, all other images within each of the clusters being identified as non-representative images;

    independently coding the representative image(s) from each of the clusters; and

    , predictively coding each of the non-representative images from each of the clusters using the representative image(s) from that cluster as a reference image(s).

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