Scalable image coding by spline approximation for a gray-scale image

The proposed method expresses a gray-scale image by parametric spline functions for edge components and by two-variable spline functions for low frequency components. It can reconstruct the image keeping its quality for the basic shape transformation. If a binary image is input as a special case, the proposed method can make a scalable vector font automatically. The performance of the proposed method is verified by some experiments.

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