“…We categorize the work into two classes, the first one reducing the requirements for storage of intermediate data, and the second one concerning the maintenance of the picture data itself. Examples of the first class are given in [16,15,1,12,8,13,9], where the list of insignificant pixels (LIP), the list of significant pixels (LSP), and the list of insignificant sets (LIS) are reduced or excluded. As these lists are essential in Spiht and can require several MBytes of RAM, the reported memory savings are given in respect to the lists.…”