For {TAIL ~ use} in a system for encoding and then decoding an image, a method for decoding the image which was encoded by: subsampling the image to obtain a plural number of subsampled frames of spatially offset image representative signals; transforming each of {HEAD ~ said subsampled frames} to obtain a corresponding number of frames of transform coefficient representative signals; forming vector representative signals from corresponding coefficient representative signals of the respective frames of coefficient representative signals; and vector quantizing the vector representative signals to obtain encoded signals; the decoding comprising the steps of: 
For { TAIL ~ use } in a system for encoding and then decoding an image , a method for decoding the image which was encoded by : subsampling the image to obtain a plural number of subsampled frames of spatially offset image representative signals ; transforming each of { HEAD ~ said subsampled frames } to obtain a corresponding number of frames of transform coefficient representative signals ; forming vector representative signals from corresponding coefficient representative signals of the respective frames of coefficient representative signals ; and vector quantizing the vector representative signals to obtain encoded signals ; the decoding comprising the steps of :
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