OpenMP Parallelization of Jacquin Fractal Image Encoding

The high compression ratio of fractal encoding is based on the increasing of the computation complexity. In order to meet the application requirements of real-time sharing and transmission, it is becoming an important research area to advance the encoding speed by developing the parallelization algorithm based on multi-core programming. In this paper, the OpenMP program model is applied to parallelize Jacquin fractal coding algorithm. Experiment results show that the speed-up ratio is more than four times compared with the original sequential program by programming the proposed parallel algorithm to Intel quad-cores CPU.