The executable file  provided here resulted during the work at the 
above mentioned papers, and therefore was only intended to test
the compression results, not to optimally implement the methods
(the execution time varies between 20-40  seconds).

It is provided only for  research experiments. 

The programs are compiled on a Sun Ultra 1 workstation.
The images to be encoded  are in raw format with 8 bits/pixel 
(maximum dimensions  720x576).


Example of encoding the file barb1 into the file barb1.enc:
 
   ASBOSC_highc -s 576 720 -e -v  barb1 >  barb1.enc
 
Example of decoding the file barb1.enc into the file barb1.dec:
 
   ASBOSC_highc -s 576 720 -d -v  barb1.enc > barb1.dec

Hopefully the files barb1 and barb1.dec are identical.