Parallel Implementation of Fractal Image Compression in Web Service Environment

Fractal image compression algorithm has some problems, such as high computational complexity and long time consumption. In this paper the parallel implementation of fractal image compression algorithm in Web service environment is discussed. The experiments show this algorithm can greatly reduce the compression time and achieve a high speedup at the same quality of decompressed image. The proposed algorithm can achieve the speedup of about 500 times with a little loss of lenna image's PSNR and two node computers against fractal full search algorithm.