Automatic annotation of images with descriptive words is a challenging problem with vast applications in the areas of image search and retrieval. This problem can be viewed as a label-assignment problem by a classifier dealing with a very large set of labels, i.e., the vocabulary set. We propose a novel annotation method that employs two layers of sparse coding and performs coarse-to-fine label...

A new lossless context based method is presented for content progressive coding of limited bits/pixel images, such as maps, company logos, etc., common on the World Wide Web. Progressive encoding is achieved by encoding the image in content layers based on color level or other predefined information. Information from already coded layers are used when coding subsequent layers. This approach is ...

Performance Analysis of Physical Layer Network Coding

Region-of-Interest (ROI) techniques are often utilized in natural stillimage coding standards such as JPEG2000 [1]. In contrast, document image coding typically adopts multi-layer methods [2], using a carefully selected algorithm for each layer to optimize overall performance. In this paper, an ROI-based method is proposed for multi-component document image coding, where rectangular textual ROI...