A further interdisciplinary aspect of the project involves an adaptation of existing techniques of handwriting analysis to the particular problems posed by the cuneiform writing system. The result is a scientific system of description that enables an objective categorisation of scripts and script types. The delivery and compression of cuneiform signs has implications for the quantity of material that can be stored, manipulated and transferred. Tham Diagnostically lossless compression is essential in safety-critical applications. This project is currently investigating the performance of image compression methods on remote sensing pipeline inspection data.
Data compression is an essential enabling technology in the information age.
Without the ability to compress greedy data types such as image and video, many new multimedia technologies would not be realisable. However, compressed data is inherently vulnerable to catastrophic error propagations when channel errors are not fully corrected. The aim of this project is to develop a novel, robust method for the compression of important image data such as medical and satellite images. Industry and transatlantic university collaboration is anticipated. The project is sponsored by Kodak and will focus on a novel wavelet image compression solution which incorporates an intelligent, layered error control system.