# A Parallel ASIC Architecture for Efficient Fractal Image Coding

@article{Acken1998APA,
title={A Parallel ASIC Architecture for Efficient Fractal Image Coding},
author={Kevin P. Acken and Mary Jane Irwin and Robert Michael Owens},
journal={Journal of VLSI signal processing systems for signal, image and video technology},
year={1998},
volume={19},
pages={97-113}
}
• Published 1 July 1998
• Computer Science
• Journal of VLSI signal processing systems for signal, image and video technology
Fractal image coding is a compression technique with many promising features, but it has been primarily placed in the class of archival coding algorithms due to its computationally expensive encoding algorithm. Though fractal coding has been extensively optimized for speed, it is still not practical for real-time applications on most sequential machines. The problem with fractal coding lies in the large amount of pixel block comparisons that are required, which makes fractal coding better…
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