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A method and apparatus for performing video compression and decompression using dynamic quantization and/or encoding. According to one aspect of the compression method, an image is recursively filtered into its constituent components each represented by a matrix of coefficients. Next, the level of correlation of a first of the matrices of coefficients is determined. Based on the level of correlation of this first coefficient matrix, one of a first quantization technique and a second quantization technique is selected. The first coefficient matrix is then quantized using the selected quantization technique. According to another aspect of the compression method, an image is digitally filtered into its constituent components, each represented by a matrix of coefficients. At least certain matrices are quantized to generated a first quantized matrix. The first quantized matrix is then recursively divided until the first quantized matrix or each of the resulting submatrices is sufficiently dense or sufficiently sparse. Each of the sufficiently dense matrices are encoded using a first technique, while each of the sufficiently sparse matrices are encoded a second technique.

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