P. G. Howard and J. S. Vitter. “Fast Progressive Lossless Image Compression,” Proceedings of the 1994 IST/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, San Jose, CA, February 1994. This paper describes a technique that combines the author’s previously published FELICS algorithm with the progressivity of the MLP method.

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