Offering an overview of the latest advances, Document and Image Compression provides an up-to-date reference of the best performing compression schemes and highlights new research directions. It describes the current state of image coding, examining multiresolution image representation, advanced coding and modeling techniques, and perceptual issues. It also introduces new research fields, including image coding by means of new image representation paradigms, application of the distributed source coding paradigm to image compression, and exploitation of novel data hiding techniques. It also describes coding techniques developed to compress particular classes of images such as binary and biomedical.