A PARALLEL DECODING ALGORITHM FOR IFS CODES WITHOUT TRANSIENT-BEHAVIOR

Iterated function systems (IFS's) have received great attention in enc oding and decoding fractal images, Barnsley has shown that IFS's for i mage compression can achieve a very high compression ratio for a singl e image, However, the major drawback of such a technique is the large computation load required to both encode and decode a fractal image, I n this paper, we provide a novel algorithm to decode IFS codes, The ma in features of this algorithm are that it is very suitable for paralle l implementation and has no transient behavior, Also, from the decodin g process of this method we can understand the encoding procedure expl icitly, One example is illustrated to demonstrate the quality of its p erformance.