M. Whybray et M. Shackleton, IMAGE-PROCESSING FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST-CENTURY, British telecommunications engineering, 14, 1996, pp. 315-321
Image processing in telecommunications has, so far, concentrated on co
mpression to allow still or moving picture transmission over narrow-ba
ndwidth circuits. With the provision of high-bit-rate channels, this n
eed will diminish though not disappear Instead, as the electronic tran
sfer of pictorial information becomes commonplace, there will be a dem
and for 'intelligent' image processing, which is responsive to the con
tent.