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