@article{Yahampath.2007,
	author="Yahampath, P. and  Rondeau, P.",
	title="Multiple-Description Predictive-Vector Quantization With Applications to Low Bit-Rate Speech Coding Over Networks",
	journal="IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing",
	year="2007",
	volume="15",
	number="3",
	month="March",
	pages="749--755",
	note=""
}

@article{Agiomyrgiannakis.2007,
	author="Agiomyrgiannakis, Y. and  Stylianou, Y.",
	title="Conditional Vector Quantization for Speech Coding",
	journal="IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing",
	year="2007",
	volume="15",
	number="2",
	month="February",
	pages="377-386",
	note=""
}

@article{Chatterjee.2007,
	author="Chatterjee, S. and Sreenivas, T.V.",
	title="Conditional PDF-Based Split Vector Quantization of Wideband {LSF} Parameters",
	journal="IEEE Signal Processing Letters",
	year="2007",
	volume="14",
	number="9",
	month="September",
	pages="641--644",
	note=""
}


@article{Chen.2007,
	author="Wei-Che Chen and Ming-Shi Wang",
	title="A Fuzzy c-means Clustering-based Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Image Authentication",
	journal="Expert Systems with Applications",
	year="2009",
	volume="36",
	number="2",
	month="March",
	pages="1300-1307",
	note=""
}

@article{Lin.2009,
	author="Ching-Chiuan Lin and  Shih-Chieh Chen and  Nien-Lin Hsueh",
	title="Adaptive Embedding Techniques for {VQ}-Compressed Images",
	journal="Information Sciences",
	year="2009",
	volume="179",
	number="1-2",
	month="January",
	pages="140--149",
	note=""
}

@article{Chang.2009,
	author="Chin-Chen Chang and  The Duc Kieu and  Yung-Chen Chou",
	title="Reversible Information Hiding for {VQ} Indices Based on Locally Adaptive Coding",
	journal="Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation",
	year="2009",
	volume="20",
	number="1",
	month="January",
	pages="57--64",
	note=""
}

@article{Chiang.2007,
	author="Yung Kuei Chiang and Piyu Tsai",
	title="Steganography Using Overlapping Codebook Partition",
	journal="Signal Processing",
	year="2008",
	volume="88",
	number="5",
	month="May",
	pages="1203--1215",
	note=""
}

@book{gersho3,
 author    = {Gersho, A. and Gray, R. M.},
 address   = {Boston},
 publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
 title     = "{Vector Quantization and Signal Compression}",
 year      = {1992}
}


@article{gray2,
author="Gray, R. M.",
title="Vector Quantization",
journal="IEEE ASSP Magazine",
pages="4-29",
month=" ",
year="1984"}

@article{Tsekouras_2005,
	author="Tsekouras, G. E.",
	title="{A Fuzzy Vector Quantization Approach to Image Compression}",
	journal="{Applied Math. and Computation}",
	year="2005",
	volume="167",
	number="1",
	pages="539--560",
	month="",
	note=""
}


@article{chen1,
author="Chen, J.-H. and Gersho, A.",
title="Gain-Adaptive Vector Quantization with Applications to Speech Coding",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Communications",
volume="35",
number="9",
pages="918-930",
month="September",
year="1987"}

@article{kou,
author="Kou, W. and Mark, J. W.",
title="Vector-Adaptive Vector Quantization with Applications to Speech Coding",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Communications",
volume="39",
number="6",
pages="958-962",
month="June",
year="1991"}


@article{gersho2,
author="Gersho, A. and Cuperman, V.",
title="Vector Quantization: A Pattern-Matching Techinique for Speech Coding",
journal="IEEE Communications Magazine",
pages="15-20",
month="December",
year="1983"}


@article{paliwal2,
author="Paliwal, K. K. and Atal, B. S.",
title="Efficient Vector Quantization of {LPC} Parameters at 24 Bits/Frame",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="3-14",
month="January",
year="1993"}


@article{kim3,
author="Kim, S.-J. and Oh, Y.-H.",
title="Split Vector Quantization of {LSF} Parameters with Minimum of {dLSF} Constraint",
journal="IEEE Signal Processing Letters",
volume= "6",
number= "9",
pages="227-229",
month="September",
year="1999"}

@article{ballester,
author="Ferrer-Balester, M. A. and Figueiras-Vidal, A. R.",
title="Efficient Adaptive Vector Quantization of {LPC} Parameters",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing",
volume="3",
number="4",
pages="314-317",
month="July",
year="1995"}

@article{ramamurthi,
author="Ramamurthi, B. and Gersho, A.",
title="Classified Vector Quantization of Images",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Communications",
volume="34",
number="11",
pages="1105-1115",
month="November",
year="1986"}


@article{nasrabadi,
author="Nasrabadi, N. M. and King, R. A.",
title="Image Coding Using Vector Quantization: A Review",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Communications",
volume="36",
number="8",
pages="957-971",
month="August",
year="1988"}


@article {sasazaki1,
	author = {Sasazaki, K. and  Saga, S. and  Maeda, J. and  Suzuki, Y.},
	title = {Vector Quantization of Images with Variable Block Size},
	journal = {Applied Soft Computing},
	number = {8},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {634--645}
}



@article{antonini,
author="Antonini, M. and  Barlaud, M. and  Mathieu, P. and Daubechies, I.",
title="Image Coding Using Wavelet Transform",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
volume="1",
number="2",
pages="205-220",
month="April",
year="1992"}


@article{averbuch,
author="Averbuch, A. and  Lazar, D. and Israeli, M.",
title="Image Compression Using Wavelet Transform and Multiresolution Decomposition",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
volume="5",
number="1",
pages="4-15",
month="January",
year="1996"}



@article{karayiannis4,
author="Karayiannis, N. B. and  Pai, P.-I. and Zervos, N.",
title="Image Compression Based on Fuzzy Algorithms for Learning Vector Quantization and Wavelet Image Decomposition",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
volume="7",
number="8",
pages="1223-1230",
month="August",
year="1998"}


@article{sampson,
author="Sampson, D. G. and  {da Silva}, E. A. B. and Ghanbari, M.",
title="Wavelet Transform Image Coding Using Lattice Vector Quantisation",
journal="Electronics Letters",
volume="30",
number="18",
pages="1477-1478",
month="September",
year="1994"}



@article{kjoelen,
author="Kjoelen, A. and Umbaugh, S. E. and Zuke, M.",
title="Compression of Skin Tumor Images -- Wavelet/Vector Quantization Methods for Reducing the Time, Cost and Bandwidth of Storing and Transmitting Data",
journal="IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology",
pages="73-80",
month="May/June",
year="1998"}


@article{cosman2,
author="Cosman, P. C. and  Perlmutter, S. M. and Perlmutter, K. O.",
title="Tree-structured Vector Quantization with Significance Map for Wavelet Image Coding",
journal="Proceedings of Data Compression Conference (DCC)",
pages="33-41",
month="April",
year="1995"}


@article{karlekar,
author="Karlekar, J. and  Poonacha, P. G. and Desai, U. B.",
title="Image Compression Using Zerotree and Multistage Vector Quantization",
journal="Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'97)",
volume="2",
pages="610-613",
year="1997"}


@conference{perlmutter,
author="Perlmutter, S. M. and  Perlmutter, K. O. and Cosman, P. C.",
title="Vector Quantization with Zerotree Significance Map for Wavelet Image Coding",
booktitle="Proceedings of 29th Asilomar Conference on Signal, Systems and Computers",
address="Pacific Grove, CA",
pages="",
month="November",
year="1995"
}



@article{waslon.revsbrn_ima,
	author="Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Francisco Madeiro and Benedito Guimar{\~{a}}es {Aguiar Neto} and Marcelo
	Sampaio Alencar",
	title="Combining Modulation Diversity and Index Assignment to Improve Image
	{VQ} for a {R}ayleigh Fading Channel",
	journal=" Learning and Nonlinear Models -- Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de
	Redes Neurais",
	year="2004",
	volume="1",
	number="3",
	pages="160--171",
	month="",
	note=""
}



@article{soong1,
author="Soong, F. K. and Rosenberg, A. E. and  Juang, B.-H. and Rabiner, L. R.",
title="A Vector Quantization Approach to Speaker Recognition",
journal="AT\&T Technical Journal",
volume="66",
number="2",
pages="14-26",
month="March/April",
year="1987"}


@article{he,
author="He, J. and  Liu, L. and Palm, G.",
title="A Discriminative Training Algorithm for {VQ}-based Speaker Identification",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="353-356",
month="May",
year="1999"}


@article{rabiner3,
author="Rabiner, L. R. and  Levinson, S. E. and Sondhi, M. M.",
title="On the Application of Vector Quantization and Hidden Markov Models to Speaker-independent, Isolated Word Recognition",
journal="The Bell System Technical Journal",
volume="62",
number="4",
pages="1075-1105",
year="1983"}


@incollection{waslon.capitulo_voz,
	author="Francisco Madeiro and Joseana Mac�do Fechine and Waslon Terllizzie
	Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Benedito Guimar{\~{a}}es {Aguiar Neto} and Marcelo Sampaio Alencar",
	title="Identifica��o Vocal por Frequ�ncia Fundamental, QV e HMMS",
	booktitle="Em-TOM-A��o: A Pros�dia em Perspectiva",
	editor="M. A. M. Aguiar and Francisco Madeiro",
	publisher="Editora Universit�ria da UFPE",
	year="2007",
	chapter="4",
	pages="91--120",
	volume="",
	number="",
	series="",
	address="Recife, PE",
	edition="1",
	note="",
}
@article {hu2,
	author = "Hu, Y.",
	title = "High-Capacity Image Hiding Scheme Based on Vector Quantization",
	journal = "Pattern Recognition",
	volume = "39",
	year = "2006",
	pages = "1715--1724"
}

@article {chiang1,
	author = {Chiang, Y. and  Tsai, P.},
	title = {Steganography Using Overlapping Codebook Partition},
	journal = {Signal Processing},
	number = {88},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {1203--1215}
}

@article {wang1,
	author = {Hwang, W. and  Ou, C. and  Yeh, C.},
	title = "Genetic Channel-Optimized Vector Quantizer Design for Burst Error
	Channels",
	journal = {Neurocomputing},
	number = {63},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {345--357}
}

@article{lbg,
author="Linde, Y. and Buzo, A. and Gray, R. M.",
title="An Algorithm for Vector Quantizer Design",
journal="IEEE Trans. Commun.",
volume="28",
number="1",
pages="84-95",
month="",
year="1980"}


@book{holland,
 title = {Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems:
          An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology,
          Control, and Artificial Intelligence},
 author = {Holland, J. H.},
 year = {1992},
 publisher = {MIT Press},
 address = {Cambridge, MA, United States}
 }


@article{lee2,
author={Lee, D. and Baek, S. and Sung, K.},
title="Modified {K}-means Algorithm for Vector Quantizer Design",
journal="IEEE Signal Processing Letters",
volume="4",
number="1",
pages="2-4",
month="January",
year="1997"}


@article{krasnogor_smith,
 author    = {Krasnogor, N. and Smith, J.},
 title     = "{A Tutorial for Competent Memetic Algorithms: Model, Taxonomy, and Design Issues}",
 journal   = {IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation},
 volume    = {9},
 number    = {5},
 year 	   = {2005},
 pages     = {474--488}
}


@article{dabei,
author     = {Bei, C.D. and Gray, R. M.},
title      = "An Improvement of the Minimum Distortion Encoding Algorithm for Vector Quantization",
journal    = "IEEE Trans. Commun.",
volume     = {33},
number     = {10},
pages      = {1132--1133},
month      = "October",
year       = "1985"
}



@article{krishna_murty,
author     = {Krishna, K. and Murty, M.},
title      = "{Genetic K-Means Algorithm}",
journal    = "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics",
volume     = {29},
number     = {3},
pages      = "433-439",
month      = "June",
year       = "1999"
}


@inproceedings{franti_etal,
 author    = {Fr\"{a}nti, P. and Kivij\"{a}rvi, J. and Kaukoranta, T. and Nevalainen, O.},
 title     = "{Genetic Algorithm for Codebook Generation in Vector Quantization}",
 booktitle = {Proceedings 3rd Nordic Workshop on Genetic Algorithms},
 year      = {1997},
 pages     = {207--222},
 address   = {Helsinki}
 }



@article{smith_evocomp,
 author    = {Jim Smith},
 title     = "{On Replacement Strategies in Steady State Evolutionary Algorithms}",
 journal   = {Evolutionary Computation},
 volume    = {15},
 number    = {1},
 year 	   = {2007},
 issn 	   = {1063-6560},
 pages     = {29--59},
 doi       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/evco.2007.15.1.29},
 publisher = {MIT Press},
 address   = {Cambridge}
 }



@inproceedings{bryant_gecco05,
 author    = {Bryant A. Julstrom},
 title     = "{Greedy, Genetic, and Greedy Genetic Algorithms for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem}",
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '05)},
 year      = {2005},
 isbn      = {1-59593-010-8},
 pages     = {607--614},
 location  = {Washington DC, USA},
 doi       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1068009.1068111},
 address   = {New York}
 }


@book{gen_cheng,
 title     = "{Genetic Algorithms and
              Engineering Optimization}",
 author    = {Gen, M. and Cheng, R.},
 year      = {1999},
 publisher = {Wiley-Interscience},
 address   = {Hoboken}
}

@book{dawkins,
 title     = "{The Selfish Gene}",
 author    = {Dawkins, R.},
 year      = {1976},
 publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
 address   = {New York}
}

@article{leung,
 author    = {Leung, F. and  Lam, H. and  Ling, S. and Tam, P.},
 title     = "{Tuning of the Structure and Parameters of a Neural
              Network Using an Improved Genetic Algorithm}",
 journal   = {IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks},
 volume    = {14},
 number    = {1},
 month     = {January},
 year      = {2003},
 pages     = {79--88}
}


@inproceedings{franti_etal,
 author    = {Fr\"{a}nti, P. and Kivij\"{a}rvi, J. and Kaukoranta, T. and Nevalainen, O.},
 title     = "{Genetic algorithm for Codebook Generation in Vector Quantization}",
 booktitle = {Proceedings 3rd Nordic Workshop on Genetic Algorithms},
 year      = {1997},
 pages     = {207--222},
 address   = {Helsinki}
 }



@inproceedings{ng,
author      = {Ng, W. and Choi, S. and Ravishankar, C.},
title       = "{An Evolutionary Approach to Vector Quantizer Design}",
booktitle   = {Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computing},
pages       = {406--411},
month       = {December},
year        = {1995}
}


@article{gray1,
author="Gray, R. M. and Linde, Y.",
title="Vector Quantizers and Predictive Quantizers for Gauss-Markov Sources",
journal="IEEE Trans. Commun.",
volume="30",
number="2",
pages="381-389",
month="",
year="1982"}



@article{franti,
 author = {Fr\"{a}nti, P.},
 title = {Genetic Algorithm with Deterministic Crossover for Vector Quantization},
 journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters},
 volume = {21},
 number = {1},
 year = {2000},
 issn = {0167-8655},
 pages = {61--68},
 doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00133-6},
 publisher = {Elsevier Science Inc.},
 address = {New York, NY, USA}
 }


@book{noll,
author="Jayant, N. S. and Noll, P.",
title="Digital Coding of Waveforms",
publisher="Prentice-Hall",
address="Englewood Cliffs, NJ",
year="1984"}


@book{berger,
author="Berger, T.",
title="Rate Distortion Theory: A Mathematical Basis for Data Compression",
publisher="Prentice-Hall",
address="Englewood Cliffs, NJ",
year="1971"}


@inproceedings{gordon,
  author    = {Gordon, S. and Pirie, R. and  Wachter, A. and Sharp, S.},
  title     = {Terrain-Based Genetic Algorithm ({TBGA}): Modeling Parameter Space as Terrain},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '99)},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1999}
}

@article{wang,
	author = {Wang, X. and  Meng, J.},
	title = "A 2-{D} {ECG} Compression Algorithm Based on Wavelet Transform and Vector Quantization",
	journal = {Digital Signal Processing},
	volume = {18},
	number = {2},
	pages = {179--188},
	year = {2008}
}

@TechReport{moscato,
  author      = {Moscato, P.},
  title       = "On Evolution, Search, Optimization, GAs and Martial Arts: Toward Memetic Algorithms",
  year        = "1989",
  pages	  = "826",
  type        = "Prog. Rep.",
  institution = "California Inst. Technol."
}

@inproceedings{radcliffe_surry,
 author    = {Radcliffe, N. J. and Surry, P. D.},
 title     = "{Formal Memetic Algorithms}",
 booktitle = "Evolutionary Computing: AISB Workshop",
 publisher = "Springer",
 series    = "LNCS",
 volume    = "865",
 year      = "1994",
 pages     = {1--16},
 address   = {Heidelberg}
 }

@inproceedings{nguyen,
  author    = {Nguyen, Q. H. and Ong, Y-S. and Krasnogor, N.},
  title     = "A Study on the Design Issues of Memetic Algorithm",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, (CEC '07)",
  year      = "2007",
  pages     = {2390--2397},
}

@book{koh,
   author = " T. Kohonen",
   address = "Berlin",
   publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
   title = "{Self-Organization and Associative Memory}",
	edition="3",
   year = "1989"
}

@article{krishnamurthy,
author="{Krishnamurthy, A. K., Ahalt, S. C., Melton, D. E., and Chen, P.}",
title="{Neural Networks for Vector Quantization of Speech and Images}",
journal="IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 8, No. 8",
pages="1449-1457",
year="October 1990"}

@article{chen_competitive,
author="{Chen, O. T.-C., Sheu, B. J., and Fang, W.-C.}",
title="{Image Compression Using Self-Organization Networks}",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 4, No. 5",
pages="480-489",
year="October 1994"}

@article{zhu_competitive,
author="Zhu, C. and Po, L. M.",
title="Partial Distortion Sensitive Competitive Learning Algorithm for Optimal Codebook Design",
journal="Electronics Letters",
volume="32",
number="19",
pages="1757-1758",
month="September",
year="1996"}

@article{yair,
author="Yair, E. and Zeger, K. and Gersho, A.",
title="{Competitive Learning and Soft Competition for Vector Quantizer Design}",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing",
volume="40",
number="2",
pages="294-309",
year="February 1992"}

@article{zeger,
author="Zeger, K. and Vaisey, J. and Gersho, A.",
title="{Globally Optimal Vector Quantizer Design by Stochastic Relaxation}",
journal="IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing",
volume="40",
number="2",
pages="310-322",
year="February 1992"}

@article{karayiannis1,
author="Karayiannis, N. B. and Pai, P.-I.",
title="{Fuzzy Vector Quantization Algorithms and Their Applications in Image Compression}",
journal="IEEE Trans. on Image Processing",
volume="4",
number="9",
pages="1193-1201",
year="1995"}

@article{koh1,
author="Kohonen, T.",
title="{The Self-Organizing Map}",
journal="Proceedings of the IEEE",
volume="78",
number="9",
pages="1464-1480",
year="September 1990"}

@conference{waslon.cbrn03.complex,
	author="Francisco Madeiro and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Marcelo
	Sampaio Alencar and  Benedito Guimar{\~{a}}es {Aguiar Neto}",
	title="Complexidade Computacional de um Algoritmo Competitivo Aplicado ao
	Projeto de Quantizadores Vetoriais",
	booktitle="Anais do VI Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais (CBRN'2003)",
	address= "S\~{a}o Paulo, SP, Brasil",
	pages="43-48",
	note="",
	month="Junho",
	year="2003"
}

@conference{waslon.cbrn03.ineq,
	author="Francisco Madeiro and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Marcelo
	Sampaio Alencar and Benedito Guimar{\~{a}}es {Aguiar Neto}",
	title="Aprendizagem Competitiva versus Algoritmo {LBG} Quanto \`{a}
	Complexidade Computacional",
	booktitle="Anais do VI Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais (CBRN'2003)",
	address= "S\~{a}o Paulo, SP, Brasil",
	pages="37-42",
	note="",
	month="Junho",
	year="2003"
}

@conference{waslon.cbrn03.meio,
	author="Francisco Madeiro and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Marcelo
	Sampaio Alencar and  Benedito Guimar{\~{a}}es {Aguiar Neto}",
	title="Constru\c{c}\~ao de Dicion\'arios Voltados para a Redu\c{c}\~ao da
	Complexidade Computacional da Etapa de Codifica\c{c}\~{a}o da
	Quantiza\c{c}\~{a}o Vetorial",
	booktitle="Anais do VI Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais (CBRN'2003)",
	address= "S\~{a}o Paulo, SP, Brasil",
	pages="439-444",
	note="",
	month="",
	year="2003"
}

@conference{lima.sbrn2008.fscl,
	author="Paulo Hugo Esp�rito Santo Lima and Rebecca Camile de Albuquerque and Daniel Carvalho da Cunha and Francisco Madeiro",
	title="On Frequency Sensitive Competitive Learning for VQ Codebook Design",
	booktitle="Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks (SBRN'2008)",
	address= "Salvador, BA, Brazil",
	pages="",
	note="",
	month="",
	year="2008"
}

@conference{madeiro.cbrn2005.fscl,
	author="Francisco Madeiro and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Marcelo
	Sampaio Alencar and  Benedito Guimar{\~{a}}es {Aguiar Neto}",
	title="Aprendizagem Competitiva com Consci�ncia Aplicada ao Projeto de Dicion�rios para Quantiza��o Vetorial de Voz",
	booktitle="Anais do Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais(CBRN'2005)",
	address= "Natal, RN, Brasil",
	pages="",
	note="",
	month="",
	year="2005"
}

@book{kuipers,
author="Kuipers, L., Neiderreiter, H.",
title="{Uniform Distribution of Sequences}",
address = {New York},
publisher = {Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.},
year = {1992}
}

@article{corput,
author="{Van der Corput}",
title="{Zahlentheoretische Abscha\"atzungen}",
journal="{Math. Ann.}",
pages="53-79",
year="1921"}

@article{halton,
author="Halton, J. H.",
title="{On the Efficiency of Certain Quasi-random Sequences of Points in Evaluating Multidimensional Integrals}",
journal="{Numer. Math}",
pages="84-90",
year="1960"}

@article{katsavounidis,
	author="Katsavounidis, I. and Kuo, C.-C. J. and Zhang, Z.",
	title="A New Initialization Technique for Geneneralized Lloyd Iteration",
	journal="IEEE Signal Processing Letters",
	year="1994",
	volume="1",
	number="10",
	month="October",
	pages="144-146",
	note=""
}


@article{equitz,
	author="Equitz, W. H.",
	title="A New Vector Quantization Clustering Algorithm",
	journal="IEEE Transanctions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing",
	year="1989",
	volume="37",
	number="10",
	month="October",
	pages="1568-1575",
	note=""
}

@article{franti,
	author="Kaukoranta, T., Fränti, P. and Nevalainen, O.",
	title="Vector Quantization by Lazy Pairwise Nearest Neighbor Method",
	journal="Optical Engineering",
	year="1999",
	volume="38",
	number="11",
	month="November",
	pages="1862-1868",
	note=""
}

@article{dalal,
author="Dalal, I. and Stefan, D. and Harwayne-Gidansky, J.",
title="{Low Discrepancy Sequences for Monte Carlo Simulations on Reconfigurable Platforms}",
journal="{Proceedings of the International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, 2008}",
pages="108-113",
year="2008"}

@article{teytaud,
author="Teytaud, O.",
title="{When does Quasi-random Work?}",
journal="{Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: PPSN X}",
pages="325-336",
year="2008"}

@article{madeiro_tutor_revista_iecom,
	author="Francisco Madeiro and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes",
	title="{Introdu\c{c}\~ao \`a Compress\~ao de Sinais}",
	journal=" {Revista de Tecnologia da Informa\c{c}\~ao e Comunica\c{c}\~ao}",
	year="2011",
	volume="1",
	number="1",
	pages="33--40",
	month="",
	note=""
}

@article{madeiro_tema_bispojr_2010,
	author="Esdras Lins Bispo Junior and Carlos Renato Belo Azevedo and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Marcelo Sampaio Alencar and Francisco Madeiro",
	title="{Methods to Accelerate a Competitive Learning Algorithm Applied to VQ Codebook Design}",
	journal=" {TEMA: Tend\^{e}ncias em Matem\'{a}tica Aplicada e Computacional}",
	year="2010",
	volume="11",
	number="",
	pages="193--203",
	month=""
	note=""
}

@article{madeiro_tema_lima_2009,
	author="Emerson Alexandre Lima and Glaucio G. M. Melo and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Marcelo Sampaio Alencar and Francisco Madeiro",
	title="{Um Novo Algoritmo para Atribui\c{c}\~ao de \'{I}ndices: Avalia\c{c}\~ao em Quantiza\c{c}\~ao Vetorial de Imagem}",
	journal=" {TEMA: Tend\^{e}ncias em Matem\'{a}tica Aplicada e Computacional}",
	year="2009",
	volume="10",
	number="",
	pages="167--177",
	month=""
	note=""
}

@article{madeiro_lncs_renato_2008,
	author="Carlos Renato Belo Azevedo and Esdras Lins Bispo Junior and  Tiago A. E. Ferreira and Francisco Madeiro and  Marcelo Sampaio Alencar",
	title="{An Evolutionary Approach for Vector Quantization Codebook Optimization}",
	journal=" {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}",
	year="2008",
	volume="5263",
	number="",
	pages="452--461",
	month=""
	note=""
}

@article{pan,
author="{J. S. Pan,  F. R. McInnes and  M. A. Jack,}",
title="{VQ Codebook Design Using Genetic Algorithms}",
journal="Electronics Letters",
volume="31",
number="17",
pages="1418-1419",
year="17th August 1995"}

@book{Duda_2001,
author="Duda, R. O. and Hart, P. E. and Stork, D. G.,",
title="{Pattern Classification}",
publisher = {Wiley-Interscience},
year = {2001}
}

@article{Xu_2005,
	author="Xu, R. and Wunsch, D.",
	title="{Survey of Clustering Algorithms}",
	journal=" {IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks}",
	year="2005",
	volume="16",
	number="3",
	pages="645--678",
	month="",
	note=""
}

@book{Bezdek_1981,
author="Bezdek, J. C.",
title="{Pattern Recognition with Objective Function Algorithms}",
address = {New York},
publisher = {Plenum},
year = {1981}
}

@article{Lee_1997,
	author={Lee, D. and Baek, S. and Sung, K.},
	title="{Modified $K$-Means Algorithm for Vector Quantizer Design}",
	journal="{IEEE Signal Processing Lett.}",
	year="1997",
	volume="4",
	number="1",
	pages="2--4",
	month="",
	note=""
}

@article{Paliwal_2000,
	author="Paliwal, K. K. and Ramasubramanian, V.",
	title="{Comments on Modified $K$-Means Algorithm for Vector Quantizer Design}",
	journal="{IEEE Trans. on Image Processing}",
	year="2000",
	volume="9",
	number="11",
	pages="1964--1967",
	month="",
	note=""
}
@article{Chang2012,
author = {Chang, Chin-Chen and Lin, Chih-Yang and Hsieh, Yi-Pei},
doi = {10.1016/j.ins.2011.12.025},
file = {:Users/renanaazevedo/Documents/Mendeley Desktop/Chang, Lin, Hsieh - 2012 - Data hiding for vector quantization images using mixed-base notation and dissimilar patterns without loss of fidelity.pdf:pdf},
issn = {00200255},
journal = {Information Sciences},
keywords = {reversible data embedding},
month = "",
publisher = {Elsevier},
title = {{Data Hiding for Vector Quantization Images using Mixed-base Notation and Dissimilar Patterns without Loss of Fidelity}},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025511006748 http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0020025511006748},
year = {2012}
}
@article{chang2009reversible,
  title={Reversible Information Hiding for VQ Indices Based on Locally Adaptive Coding},
  author={Chang, C.C. and Chou, Y.C. and others},
  journal={Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation},
  volume={20},
  number={1},
  pages={57--64},
  year={2009},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}
@article{chen2009fuzzy,
  title={A Fuzzy $C$-Means Clustering-Based Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Image Authentication},
  author={Chen, W.C. and Wang, M.S.},
  journal={Expert Systems with Applications},
  volume={36},
  number={2},
  pages={1300--1307},
  year={2009},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@article{lin2009adaptive,
  title={Adaptive Embedding Techniques for VQ-Compressed Images},
  author={Lin, C.C. and Chen, S.C. and Hsueh, N.L.},
  journal={Information Sciences},
  volume={179},
  number={1-2},
  pages={140--149},
  year={2009},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}
@article{Srinivasan2012,
author = {Srinivasan, A},
journal = {Engineering and Technology},
keywords = {matlab,mel frequency,speaker recognition,vector quantization,vq},
number = {1},
pages = {33--40},
title = {{Speaker Identification and Verification using Vector Quantization and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients}},
volume = {4},
year = {2012}
}
@article{trabalho_silvana_2012,
  title={Combining Entropy Measurements and Cepstral Analysis for Pathological Voice Assessment},
  author={Vieira, R. T. and Brunet, N. and  Costa, S. C. and  Correia, S. and Aguiar Neto,  B. G. and Fechine, J. M},
  journal={Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering (Article in Press)},
  year={2012}
}
@incollection{waslon.capitulo.nicso.2009,
   author="Carlos Renato B. Azevedo and Flávia E. A. G. Azevedo and Waslon
   Terllizzie Araújo Lopes and Francisco Madeiro",
   title="Terrain-Based Memetic Algorithms to Vector Quantization Design",
   booktitle="Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO
   2008)",
   editor="N. Krasnogor",
   publisher="Springer-Verlag",
   year="2009",
   chapter="17",
   pages="197--211",
   volume="236",
   number="",
   series="Studies in Computational Intelligence",
   address="Berlin",
   edition="1",
   note="ISBN 978-3-642-03210-3"
}
@article{waslon.tema.2010,
   author="Esdras L. {Bispo J\'{u}nior}  and Carlos Renato B. Azevedo and Waslon
   Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Marcelo Sampaio Alencar and Francisco
   Madeiro",
   title="Methods to Accelerate a Competitive Learning Algorithm Applied to {VQ}
   Codebook Design",
   journal="TEMA -- Tend\^{e}ncias em Matem\'{a}tica Aplicada e Computacional",
   year="2010",
   volume="11",
   number="3",
   pages="193--203",
   month="",
   note=""
}
@incollection{waslon.acivs2008.lncs,
   author="Carlos Renato B. Azevedo and Tiago Alessandro Espinola Ferreira and Waslon Terllizzie Ara\'{u}jo Lopes and Francisco Madeiro",
   title="Improving Image Vector Quantization with a Genetic Accelerated $K$-Means Algorithm",
   booktitle="Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems",
   editor="",
   publisher="Springer Berlin/Heidelberg",
   year="2008",
   volume="5259/2008",
   number="",
   series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
   pages="67--76",
   month="",
   note=""
}

@article{Chavan_2009,
author="Chavan, P. U. and Chavan, P. P. and Dandawate, Y. H.",
title="{Codebook Optimization in Vector Quantization using Genetic Algorithms}",
journal="{Proc. of the 9th Int. Symp. on Communications and Information Technology (ISCIT 2009)}",
pages="",
year="2009"}

@article{Setiawan_2009,
author="Setiawan, A. W. and Suksmono, A. B. and Mengko, T. L. R.",
title="{A Comparative Study of Colour Retinal Image Coding Using Vector Quantization: $K$-Means \& Fuzzy $C$-Means}",
journal="{Proc. of the 2009 Int. Conf. on Electrical Engineering and Informatics}",
pages="",
year="2009"}

@article{Chang_2007,
	author="Chang, C. -Y. and Zhuang, D.-F.",
	title="{A Fuzzy-Based Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network for Recurrent Nasal Papilloma Detection}",
	journal="{IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I: Regular Papers}",
	year="2007",
	volume="54",
	number="12",
	pages="2619--2627",
	month="",
	note=""
}

@article{Nagendran_2009,
author="Nagendran, R. and Rani, P. A. J.",
title="{An Efficient Fuzzy Possibilistic Code Book Design for Vector Quantization Based Image Compression in the Wavelet Packet Domain}",
journal="{Proc. of the 2009 Int. Conf. on Electrical Engineering and Informatics}",
pages="548-552",
year="2009"}

@article{Pan_2011,
author="Pan, S.-T. and Liang, S.-F. and Hong, T.-P. and Zeng, J.-H.",
title="{Apply Fuzzy Vector Quantization to Improve the Observation-Based Discrete Hidden Markov Model - An Example on Electroencephalogram (EEG) Signal Recognition}",
journal="{Proc. of the 2011 IEEE Int. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems}",
pages="",
year="2011"}

@article{Gkalelis_2008,
	author="Gkalelis, N. and Tefas, A. and Pitas, I.",
	title="{Combining Fuzzy Vector Quantization with Linear Discriminant Analysis for Continuous Human Movement Recognition}",
	journal="{IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology}",
	year="2008",
	volume="18",
	number="11",
	pages="1511--1521",
	month="",
	note=""
}

@article{Filippi_2007,
	author="Filippi, A. M. and Jensen, J. R.",
	title="{Effect of Continuum Removal on Hyperspectral Coastal Vegetation Classification using a Fuzzy Learning Vector Quantizer}",
	journal="{IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing}",
	year="2007",
	volume="45",
	number="6",
	pages="1857--1869",
	month="",
	note=""
}

@article{Phanprasit_2009,
author="Phanprasit, T. and Leauhatong, T. and Pintavirooj, C. and Sangworasil, M.",
title="{Image Coding using Vector Quantization Based on Wavelet Transform Fuzzy C-Means and Principle Component Analysis}",
journal="{Proc. of the 9th Int. Symp. on Communications and Information Technology (ISCIT 2009)}",
pages="",
year="2009"}

%@article{Luong_2009,
%author="Luong, H. V. and Kim, Y. M. and Kim, B. K. and Kim, J. M. and Kim, C. H.",
%title="{Parallel Approach to Fuzzy Vector Quantization for Image Compression}",
%journal="{Proc. of the 10th ACIS Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligences, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing}",
%pages="",
%year="2009"}