Digital Image Compression -- A Brief Overview

Yachin Pnueli Institut für Informatik Freie Universität Berlin email: pnueli@inf.fu-berlin.de Report B 94-14 June 94

We give a brief survey of the framework, relevant issues and existing methods in the field of digital image compression. Accept for section 3 where additional references are given, we basically follow the exposition of the field as presented in \begin{center} {\bf Digital Pictures - Representation and Compression}\\ Arun. N. Netravali and Barry G. Haskell\\ {\em AT\&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey}\\ Plenum Press, London and New York 1988. \end{center} All figures that contain page numberings are taken from the above.
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