Some assessments on applications of fuzzy clustering techniques in multimedia compression systems

editorial reviewedData compression is the process of reducing the amount of necessary memory for the representation of a given piece of information. This process is of great utility especially in digital storage and transmission of the multimedia information and it typically involves various encoding/decoding schemes. In this work we will be primarily focused on some compression schemes which employ specific forms of clustering known as fuzzy clustering. In the data mining context, fuzzy clustering is a versatile tool which analyzes heterogeneous collections of data providing insights on the underlying structures involving the concept of partial membership. Several models employing the fuzzy clustering techniques in data compression systems are demonstrated and image compression based on fuzzy transforms for compression and decompression of color videos is described in details