Improved image compression using fractal block coding

Fractal coding of images is shown to be very efficient compression tool in recent years (Jacquin, 1992; Barnsley; Mandelbrot, 1982; Kapoor et. al, 2003). It is shown that, because of high redundancy present in images a rule-based technique can be used to iteratively reconstruct an image from limited image patterns. In this presentation we offer another efficient technique based fractal block coding (Jacquin, 1992) for image compression. It is shown that this technique substantially reduces the memory requirement, and speeds up the reconstruction.