Kirsanov, DanilGortler, Steven2015-11-182003Kirsanov, Danil and Steven J. Gortler. 2003. Arc-Length Compression. Harvard Computer Science Group TR-04-03.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23586583We introduce a novel method for lossy compression of the two-dimensional curves based on the arc-length parameterization. We show that the proposed method has a number of advantages: it is progressive, converges uniformly, and requires the number of the bits proportional to the total arc-length of the curve. The method is applied to the compression of the handwritten letters and scanlines of the natural images.en-USResearch Paper or Report2015-11-18