MRC Compression of Compound Documents using H.264/AVC-I

The Mixed Raster Content (MRC) ITU document compression standard (T.44) specifies a multi-layer multiresolution representation of a compound document. It is expecte d that higher compression can be achieved if more efficient compression standards are used to compress each layer. In this paper we present an MRC compound document codec that uses the H.264/AVC operating in INTRA mode to encode background/foreground layers and JBIG2 to encode the binary Mask layer. The result is an unrivaled performance for compressing compound documents as demonstrated by our experiments. Keywords— H.264/AVC, JPEG-2000, Image coding, Compound documents, Mixed Raster Content.

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