Quanitization and Thresholding


The process of representing a continuous function with discrete values is called quantization. It can best be visualized with a drawing:



The input values that cause the quantization levels to change output values are called thresholds. The example above has 4 quantization levels and 3 thresholds. When the spacing between the thresholds and the quantization levels is constant the process is called uniform quantization.
Lecture 3   Slide 23   6.837 Fall '01