Randall- Sunday, February 1, 2009, 12:40:58 PM, you wrote:
> The problem with fractal compression is that it like all > compression schemes is usually applied indiscriminately to a whole > file. A scheme that works best for some data doesnt always work > best for others. The real breakthrough will involve an entropy > metric that can be used to self optimize a scheme to regions and > others other other regions... Setting up a topograhic mapping of > compressions as directed by the morphology of that data. Do that > and you can selectively and accurately reduce an image (or any other > data set) to more general terms. For instance, if a filter were > able to extract obects (humans, plants, buildings, furnature, > infrastructure, land use, animals, equipment) into semantic > primitives, it sould describe and store reality the way our brains > do while we sleep. Achieving million-to-one compression ratios. Sounds like you may be interested in what Numenta's up to... www.numenta.com -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
