Studies the tradeoffs involved in choosing the bit allocation in amultiresolution remote image retrieval system. Such a system uses amultiresolution image coding scheme so that a user accessing thedatabase will first see a coarse version of the images and will be ableto accept or discard a given image faster, without needing to receiveall the image data. The authors formalize the problem of choosing thebit allocation (e.g., in the two resolution case, how many bits shouldbe given to the coarse image and the additional information,respectively?) so that the overall delay in the query is minimized. Theyprovide analytical methods to find the optimal solution under differentconfigurations and show how a good choice of the bit allocation resultsin a significant reduction of the overall delay in the query (by up to afactor of two in some cases)
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