One of the keys to obtaining acceptable quality imagery/video encoded at very low bit rates is to transmit only that information which is critical to human perception. To successfully achieve this goal, one must not only understand the human visual system, but be able to utilize this information in the design of their codec. This paper will present an overview of the properties associated with color science and human visual perception, and how they could make an impact on very low bit-rate image coding.

Date Published: 16 September 1994
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 2308, Visual Communications and Image Processing '94, (16 September 1994); doi: 10.1117/12.185984

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2308:
Visual Communications and Image Processing '94
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Editor(s)