The RGB color retinal image has an interesting characteristic, i.e. the G channel contains more important information than the other ones. One of the most important features in a retinal image is the retinal blood vessel structure. Many diseases can be diagnosed based on in the retinal blood vessel, such as micro aneurysms that can lead to blindness. In the G channel, the contrast between retin...

Multispectral images are a particular class of images that require specialized coding algorithms. In multispectral images, the same spatial region is captured multiple times using different imaging modalities. These modalities often consist of measurements at different optical wavelengths (hence the name multispectral), but the same term is sometimes used when the separate image planes are capt...

We explore a video coding algorithm that uses long term memory in addition to motion compensated prediction to build a model from video frames for coding. The long term memory, modeled on the cache used in operating systems and searched by a vector quantization formalism, holds recurring visual elements such as cyclically revealed information and actors that persist though several images. This ...

The human visual system (HVS) is highly space-variant in sampling, coding, processing, and understanding. The spatial resolution of the HVS is highest around the point of fixation (foveation point) and decreases rapidly with increasing eccentricity. By taking advantage of this fact, it is possible to remove considerable high-frequency information redundancy from the peripheral regions and still...