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Wikipedia Entry: Huffman Coding
The Wikipedia entry for Huffman Coding. A fairly terse definition.
Wikipedia Entry: Arithmetic Coding
The Wikipedia entry for Arithmetic coding. Too short for anything other than a thumbnail sketch.
Wikipedia Entry: Data Compression
The Wikipedia entry for the topic of Data Compression. Many links to other Wikipedia entries on this page, including MP3, JPEG, Fractal compression, etc.
Wikipedia Entry: Run Length Encoding
The Wikipedia entry for RLE. Given the simple nature of RLE, this provides an adequate explanation.
Wikipedia Entry: LZW
The Wikipedia entry for LZW compression. Good overview with plenty of links.
Wikipedia Entry: GIF
The Wikipedia entry for GIF. A reasonable amount of background and overview information.
Wikipedia entry: PNG
The Wikipedia entry for PNG. Good overview with many relevant links to other entries in the Wikipedia.
Wikipedia entry: MNG
The Wikipedia entry for MNG. Fairly terse..
Wikipedia entry: deflate
This Wikipedia entry describes the deflate compression algorithm. Very terse, could use an update from a DCL reader!
Wikipedia entry: MP3
This Wikipedia entry describes the MP3 audio format. A good overview with many helpful links.
Wikipedia entry: JPEG
This Wikipedia entry describes JPEG image compression. A reasonable overview with helpful links.
Wikipedia entry: Fractal Compression
This Wikipedia entry describes Fractal image compression. Short overview.
Wikipedia entry: Lossy Compression
This Wikipedia entry describes lossy data compression. In addition to a nice overview, includes links to many lossy compressors for still image, moving image, music and sound.
Wikipedia entry: Vorbis
This Wikipedia entry describes the Vorbis codec, used in the open music codec Ogg Vorbis. Overview, a few interesting links, not much detail.
Wikipedia entry: MPEG-1
This Wikipedia entry describes the MPEG-1 standard. Very sparse.
Wikipedia entry: MPEG-2
This Wikipedia entry describes the MPEG-2 standard, the version of MPEG used to encode movies on DVD. Not too much information here, although it does enumerate the standards documents that collectively define MPEG-2.
Wikipedia entry: MPEG-4
This Wikipedia entry describes the MPEG-4 standard, the version of MPEG designed for lower bit-rate applications. Light on detail.
UC Berkeley Wavelet Group
The wavelet group has links to books, publications, and people doing wavelet things. Link updated to new location January 2002
Slashdot Takes on MP3 and Competitors
The folks at Slashdot are having a chat trying to decide what the best non-MP3 codec is for home music recording. Ogg Vorbis gets a lot of votes the last time I checked the thread, but WMA and MP3 have a fair number of adherents.
Symbol Ranking Text Compression with Shannon Recodings
by Peter Fenwick, Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland.
In his work on the information content of English text in 1951, Shannon described a method of recoding the input text, a technique which has apparently lain dormant for the ensuing 45 years. Whereas traditional compressors exploit symbol frequencies and symbol contexts, Shannon’s method adds […]
http://www.jucs.org/jucs_3_2/symbol_ranking_text_compression
Universal Compression and Retrieval
By Rafail Krichevsky, Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk University, Russia. This volume constitutes a comprehensive self-contained course on source encoding.
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Reader Yuriy R. says: A concise and rigorous course on universal source coding and universal information […]
Source Coding Theory by Robert M. Gray Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, CA, USA
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9048-2 October 1989, 208 pp. Part of the Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science.
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Vector Quantization and Signal Compression by Allen Gersho
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9181-0 November 1991, 760 pp.
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Source and Channel Coding: An Algorithmic Approach by John B. Anderson
Source and Channel Coding: An Algorithmic Approach provides in-depth coverage of coded communication with the first unified treatment of trellis coding and modern bandwidth-efficient coding
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Claude Shannon: Reluctant Father of the Digital Age
Loving article about the father of Information Theory in MIT’s Technology Review.
Philips - Business Team Sound Coding
Historically, the BTSC has been involved in MPEG Audio from the very start. This site provides some background information on the various MPEG Audio standards.
This site provides some info on the background of MPEG, plus a couple of links to standards and so on.
Block Sorting Compression Algorithm
This is an academic project. A library and a sample program will be developed, that will implement the Burrows-Wheeler compression algorithm, using C++ and templates. This is the same algorithm for BZip.
The Ogg Vorbis CODEC project
Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same competetive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance […]
Wired Interviews ZeoSync CEO
Wired Magazine got ZeoSync CEO Peter St. George to sit down for a little chat. They posted the article here.
zlib for WinCE
Source code and demo projects from Ciprian Miclaus. Ciprian said he created this because the only other available port for CE did not include source.
DCL reader Mike P. said Very good … especially that I found on the same site a port of libbzip2 for WinCE. Excellent … exactly what my project needed.
http://www.ciprian-miclaus.com/sources/zlibce.asp?id=5&tip=c
