In near-lossless image coding, each reconstructed pixel of the decoded image differs from the corresponding one in the original image by not more than a pre-specified value δ. Such schemes are mainly based on predictive coding techniques, which are not capable of scalable decoding. Lossless image coding with scalable decoding is mainly based on integer wavelet transforms. In this paper, methods...

Quantisation with Gaussian type states offers certain advantages over other quantisation schemes, in particular, they can serve to regularise formally discontinuous classical functions leading well defined quantum operators. In this work we define a squeezed state two dimensions using several families of for one- and two-mode configurations. The completeness relations the are exploited order ta...

We report on an eecient intelligent character recognition tool for the automatic treatment of handwritten bank transfer forms. The classiication is based on nearest-neighbor algorithms and a novel binary clustering technique for the generation of large prototype sets. We introduce a new conndence measure which can be used on a decision tree structure to combine lowest error rates with a very hi...