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An inequality for pairs of martingales and its application to fractal image coding

Part of: Communication, information Stochastic processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

F. M. Dekking
F. M. Dekking*
Affiliation:
Technische Universiteit Delft
*
∗Postal address: Faculteit der Technische Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Delft, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.
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Abstract

We prove a monotonicity property for a function of general square integrable pairs of martingales which is useful in fractal-based algorithms for compression of image data.

Keywords

MARTINGALESQUAD TREESFRACTAL IMAGE COMPRESSION

MSC classification

Primary: 60G42: Martingales with discrete parameter
Secondary: 94A99: None of the above, but in this section

Information

Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 968 - 973
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1996 

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