Grouping the Range Blocks Depending on the Variance Coherence

The general fractal image compression provides a high compression rate, but it requires a large encoding time. In order to overcome this disadvantage, many researchers have introduced various methods that reduce the total number of domain blocks considering their block similarities or control the number of searching domain block depending on its distribution. In this paper, we propose a method that can reduce the number of searching domain blocks employing the variance coherence of intensity values and also the number of range blocks requiring the domain block search through the classification of range blocks. This proposed method effectively reduces the encoding time and also a negligible drop of the quality as compared with the previous methods requiring the search of all range blocks.