An Efficient Data Structure for Storing Similar Binary Images

Based on the overlapping concept, this paper defines an efficient data structure, called the common-component binary tree (CCBT), to hold the linear quadtrees corresponding to a set of similar binary images. This structure removes the redundant information among the linear quadtrees. The processing time required by the operations on the CCBT structure is only proportional to the number of involved nodes in a specified linear quadtree. Additionally, there is a high storage space reduction for storing the similar images based on the CCBT structure.