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An inequality for pairs of martingales and its application to fractal image coding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

F. M. Dekking*
Affiliation:
Technische Universiteit Delft
*
Postal address: Faculteit der Technische Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Delft, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.

Abstract

We prove a monotonicity property for a function of general square integrable pairs of martingales which is useful in fractal-based algorithms for compression of image data.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1996 

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