ACSL Practice 2009
Task 5: Fax
You are asked to design a compression scheme for transmitting fax images of documents. After an image is scanned in using a scanner, you obtain a sequence of numbers where each number x takes a value from 1 to 256. For example, an image may be converted into a sequence of the form
1, 1, 1, 25, 26, 25, 25, 255, 256, 256, 256, 255, ...
Since it is not necessary to transmit the exact image, you decide to discretize each number to 4 levels, namely 1, 86, 172 and 256, so that you can code each level using only 2 bits as follows:
Level | 1 | 86 | 172 | 256 |
Code | 00 | 01 | 10 | 11 |
- For the first number in the sequence, you will use the 2 bits as described previously.
- For all other numbers:
- if the previous number is the same as the current number, you will transmit the bit 0.
- otherwise, you will transmit the bit 1 followed by the 2-bit code of the number. That is,
- 1 followed by 00 for number 1
- 1 followed by 01 for number 86
- 1 followed by 10 for number 172
- 1 followed by 11 for number 256
You decide to measure the overall cost of a transmission by the following weighted sum
- the weight W can be adjusted to give more emphasis to either the total error or the total number of bits transmitted
- for an input sequence x1, x2, ..., xN and a transmitted sequence y1, y2, ..., yN, both of length N, the total error is Summation (i from 1 to N) |xi - yi| = |x1 - y1| + ... + |xN - yN|.
- we can transmit the sequence y1, ..., y8 = 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 86, 1, 1 by transmitting the string 0000001011000 with a cost of 47 + 100 × 13 = 1347;
- or we can transmit the sequence y1, ..., y8 = 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 by transmitting the string 000000000 with a cost of 52 + 100 × 9 = 952.
Input
The input consists of several lines. The first line contains two integers N (1 ≤ N ≤ 50) and W (1 ≤ W ≤ 100) in this order. Integer N denotes the length of the input sequence and integer W is the weight. Each of the subsequent N lines contains an integer x (1 ≤ x ≤ 256) of the sequence.
Output
The output contains a single integer which is the smallest possible cost required to transmit the input sequence with the given value of W.
Sample Input
8 100 2 2 2 2 2 46 2 2
Sample Output
952
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Point Value: 12 (partial)
Time Limit: 2.00s
Memory Limit: 16M
Added: May 19, 2009
Languages Allowed:
C++03, PAS, C, HASK, ASM, RUBY, PYTH2, JAVA, PHP, SCM, CAML, PERL, C#, C++11, PYTH3
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