{HEAD ~ This invention} relates to compression of image representative signals and, more particularly, to an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding {TAIL ~ image representative signals} 
{ HEAD ~ This invention } relates to compression of image representative signals and , more particularly , to an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding { TAIL ~ image representative signals }
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