Advances in Visual Data Compression and Communication

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12.8 Summary 265

increasing cost for storing a new image becomes very cheap. Our conjecture is that

the cost for cloud storage will converge to a constant no matter how many images

and photos are uploaded, as shown by the solid curve in Figure 12.11. It is important

for the service providers of cloud storage and users because it indicates that one day

the cloud storage paid by you is a fixed fee but the storage size is unlimited.

The same principle should also exist for video storage, although currently we do

not have a scheme for coding video using the inter-video correlation, similar to that

we present in this chapter. Since image and video are dominant data in cloud storage,

if our conjecture is true, cloud storage will be a trend for personal ...