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

Alexandre Zaghetto, Ricardo de Queiroz

DOI: 10.14209/sbrt.2007.31122

Evento: XXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT2007)

Keywords: H.264/AVC JPEG-2000 Image coding Compound documents Mixed Raster Content

Abstract

The Mixed Raster Content (MRC) ITU document compression standard (T.44) specifies a multi-layer multiresolution representation of a compound document. It is expected 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.

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