With the advance of the information age the need for mass information storage and retrieval grows. Modern society has become more and more dependent on image communication. Digital image information is stored in retrieval systems, broadcasting in television transmission and exchanged over several kinds of telecommunication media. A major problem is that digital images are represented with large amounts of data. Storing the image efficiently leads to a direct reduction in cost. Another useful feature of image compression is the rapid transmission of data--less data requires less time to send.
While JPEG is becoming the industry standard for image compression technology, there is ongoing research in alternative methods: Fractal image compression. Such scheme is originated from the concepts and mathematical results of iterated function system. It has high compression ratio, and reasonable fidelity, but it needs a lot of computation time to decode encoding information in order to generate original image. So I will present a new VLSI architecture of the Fractal image compression system decoder. The proposed architecture characteristic is high speed decoding and small area. If possible, adequate hardware architecture and functional elements for Advanced Fractal decoder will be suggested.
