Fractal Image Encoding and Analysis

I Fractal Image Encoding.- 1 Why Fractal Block Coders Work.- 2 On Fractal Compression and Vector Quantization.- 3 On the Use of Subsampling in Fractal Image Compression.- 4 On the Benefits of Basis Orthogonalization in Fractal Compression.- 5 On the Dimension of Fractally Encoded Images.- 6 Fractal Image Compression via Nearest Neighbor Search.- 7 Fractal Image Coding: Some Mathematical Remarks on Its Limits and Its Prospects.- 8 Linear Time Fractal Quadtree Coder.- 9 Fractal Encoding of Video Sequences.- 10 Theory of Generalized Fractal Transforms.- 11 Inverse Problem Methods for Generalized Fractal Transforms.- 12 Fractal Compression of ECG Signals.- II Fractal Image Analysis.- 13 Dimensions of Fractals and Multifractals.- 14 Velocity, Length, Dimension.- 15 A Local Multiscale Characterization of Edges Applying the Wavelet Transform.- 16 Local Connected Fractal Dimension Analysis of Early Chinese Landscape Paintings and X-Ray Mammograms.- 17 Introduction to the Multifractal Analysis of Images.- List of Participants.