Difference between huffman decoding for image matrix and vector

Hello,

I've been wondering about the basic difference related to the the role of huffman decoding algorithm between an image matrix and vector. I've observed that applying huffman code to vector and then decoding it gives back the original vector itself.

However, in case of image matrix, the matrix is initially encoded in the form of a vector but then the decoding process does not give back the original matrix. It gives back a vector.

I would like to know if this is how the source coding (huffman coding) work or am I doing something wrong? If this is how it works, then how is it theoretically possible to obtain the image back?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Depends on how you do it I guess. It sounds like the way you saw it might need a reshape() after reconstruction.