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In the context ofimage communication and interchange, to some extent, it comes to philosophical categories, of one tries to explain the term “image”:
The field is heavily influenced by three scientific disciplines: telecommunication engineering, electronical engineering, and computer science. In this situation, where different disciplines of science intersect with different theoretical background, some terms are used in different meanings and in ambiguous ways.
This report makes an attempt to illuminate the area of image communication by providing a basic image model, in both mathematical and data structure means. The report gives also a comparative glossary of terms, as they are used by different scientific communities. Different image interchange techniques are described with respect to different image display architectures. Some of the well-known image communication mechanisms and standards are compared with each other.
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Hofmann, G.R. The modelling of images for communication in multimedia environments and the evolution from the image signal to the image document. The Visual Computer 9, 303–317 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01901911
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