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General Prediction
Some thoughts on modeling from Charles Bloom.
Compression as the God of Science
Squeez
I believe this is the US sales home for the product Squeez, which makes its home in Germany.
Motion compensation without side information for Wavelet Video
Charles Bloom gives a short bit of thought about just what the title says.
A discussion on Audio Coding, January 1999.
Charles Bloom thinks out loud about audio coding.
A Fallacy in Model + Encoder
Charles Bloom thinks out loud about the canonical model + encoder of contemporary data compression.
Notes on Low-N Quantum Information Theory
Charles Bloom thinks about quantum information theory.
The 2nd law of stat-mech in info-theory
Charles Bloom puts that physics background into play in the world of information theory.
More than one bit per bit?
Charles Bloom discusses the hopelessness of thinking you can get something for nothing.
USA Video Interactive
These guys say that they are establishing a leadership position in the streaming video arena. They have some good information about wavelet compression on their page.
EPIC (Efficient Pyramid Image Coder)
EPIC is a lossy image compression program. It uses subband decomposition followed by an entropy encoder to get its job done. This page has links to the code, papers, references, and more.
The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer’s Perspective
Some thoughts by a person only known as mcb on the GIF patent controversy.
Microsoft Cabinet SDK
Microsoft’s CAB SDK, and a little bit of documentation to go with it.
CrossePac
A data compression utility. The internal documentation states that this program can create archives using 7 bit ASCII only for maximum portability.
DeepFreezer for Windows95/NT
The documentation for this program is in an unknown language. It appears to be an archiver that includes a developers kit.
Compression with Reversible Embedded Wavelets
CREW is a compression algorithm developed by RICOH that has been offered up to the JPEG working group as a potential standard. This page contains a description of the algorithms, along with samples and related documents.
Peter Fenwick.
Dr. Peter Fenwick’s home page. Fenwick has links to several of his compression papers on this page, including several recent papers discussing BWT algorithms.
G J Chaitin
G.J. Chaitin seems to be interested in complexity and information theory.
MPEG-2 FAQ
The MPEG-2 FAQ. 66 questions, 66 answers.
The MPEG-1 FAQ
Some MPEG-1 questions managed to slip into this FAQ.
Unziplify
This is a freeware program that unzips all the zip files it finds in a given Win32 directory. Thank Tabdown Enterprises for the good work.
RAD Game Tools
Makers of Blink and Smacker, a pair of Video codecs targeted towards game developers. These products appear to be carefully targeted towards the perfomance needs of PC-based games.
Cysip DSP Courses
These folks offer some seminars on communcations. On their page, if you go to the links to free software, you will find Matlab code for CELP and LPC Vocoders. This same page also has a wide variety of links for speech coding stuff.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
This conference is being held June 5-9 in Istanbul Turkey. The call for papers deadling is June 10, 2000. This is the 25th anniversary meeting of the ICASSP.
comp.speech FAQ
A web site containing the comp.speech FAQ. In particular, you will be interested in section 3 for this FAQ, which discusses speech coding and compression.
UnicodeCompressor : another alphaworks technology
IBM has developed a pair of Java clases that compress Unicode according to the Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode. Looks like they might be giving it away here.
MegaSafe
MegaSafe is advertised as being “one finger archive control of your critical data.” I’m not sure what that means, and there is not much more description than that on the web site.
JPEG2000 wavelet compression spec approved
At long last the JPEG 2000 spec has been approved. Developers can now start working on products that will support this quantum leap in image compression.
Maxime Zakharov - Compression Links
Compression links to papers and web sites, mostly in Russian language.
