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- From: susanm@an.hp.com (Susan Margulies)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Image Correlation Question
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 19:48:29 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- I am having difficulty reconciling two separate resources'
- treatment of image correlation models. My two references
- are "Digital Pictures: Representation and Compression"
- by Netravali and Haskell (c. 1988) and "Information Preserving
- Image Compression for Archiving NMR Images" from Computerized Medical
- Imaging and Graphics vol 15 no 4 (c. 1991).
-
- Digital Pictures defines the image autocorrelation function
-
- R(x,y) = E(b b') where the distance between pixels b and b'
- horizontally is x and vertically is y.
-
- Then the normalized autocovariance function is defined
-
- rho(x,y) = R(x,y) - E(b)^2
- ---------------
- E(b^2) - E(b)^2 <----- var(b)
-
- The NMR article defines the correlation coefficient between pels as
-
- rho(x,y) = E(b_ij b_i-x,j-y)
- -----------------
- E(b^2)
-
- which is not the same. I cannot figure out why one model
- subtracts the square of the first moment from numerator and
- denominator and the other does not. My reason for wanting
- to understand the model is that I am trying to determine
- correlation coefficients for DPCM coding using 2d linear
- adaptive prediction.
-
- If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it.
- Please send email if possible.
-
- Thanks,
- Susan
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- Susan E. Margulies
- HP Imaging Systems
- susanm@hp-and.an.hp.com
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