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Quantization | Quantization is the process of throwing away high frequency data. | ||
[[Category: | Another possible definition of quantization is mapping one set elements into smaller set of elements. This covers both [[Scalar Quantization|scalar quantization]] (mapping some numbers to just one number) and [[Vector Quantization|vector quantization]] (mapping similar blocks of data to one block). | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:12, 8 June 2007
Quantization is the process of throwing away high frequency data.
Another possible definition of quantization is mapping one set elements into smaller set of elements. This covers both scalar quantization (mapping some numbers to just one number) and vector quantization (mapping similar blocks of data to one block).