Multiscale (inter/intra-frame) fractal video coding

Presents a fractal image compression algorithm for inter/intra-frame video coding. The authors have shown previously how the iterated transformation theory (ITT) compression algorithm proposed by Jacquin (1993) can be modeled as the solution of a second kind two-scale functional equation. This approach allows one to introduce a chain of functional equations which one can use to build a pyramid algorithm for still image compression. The present authors use the prediction property of the ITT-chain to create a inter-frame video coder. They combine the inter-frame video encoder with the still-image ITT-pyramid to generate a hierarchy of bit streams that can be used in multimedia applications