Author Page
MPEG Audio Public Documents
A big batch of pointers to various MPEG documents. Includes press releases and docs on MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, and AAC.
SHORTEN: Simple lossless and near-lossless waveform compression
Tony Robinson - Technical report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.156. A report on an audio compression algorithm that relies on compression of the waveform with Huffman compression of the residuals.
Information and Computation
A journal that publishes papers dealing with randomness, pseudorandomness, and Kolmogorov complexity, among other things. Their home page features an on line listing of every paper published in this journal since 1957, with a search tool.
The Wavelet Seismic Inversion Lab
Lots of discussion of wavelets here at the Colorado School of Mines Center for Wave Phenomona.
Jean-loup Gailly
His home page, with English and French language versions.
LZW - Webopeidia reference page
Short for Lempel-Zif-Welsh, a popular data compression technique developed in 1977 by J. Ziv and A Lempel, and later refined by T. Welsh. It is the compression algorithm used in the GIF graphics file format, which is one of the standard graphic formats used by CompuServe and the World Wide Web.
The LZO documentation
Concise documentation on LZO.
Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
Some sort of class outline, including lots of links and references.
Technical reports on the wustl.edu server. Lots of stuff here, but it’s going to take a few hours to go through and find the pertinent stuff.
Advanced Hardware Architectures
Home page for Advanced Hardware Architectures.
AHA makes a few different chips that implement various forms of lossless data compression.
Fractals Everywhere
by Michael F. Barnsley. A revised and updated textbook focusing on how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world. DCL reader TJ says This is, in my experience, the best mathematics book I have ever seen
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Data and Image Compression: Tools and Techniques, 4E
by Gilbert Held, Thomas R. Marshall.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471952478/theinternetdatac
Fractal Image Compression
by Michael F. Barnsley, Lyman P. Hurd, Louisa F. Anson (Illustrator).
A sequel to Barnsley’s first book.
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Dictionary Coders
This page has links to the source code for a family of compressors written by Charles Bloom. This includes the LZP family, an LZW example, LZRW, and LZCB.
Info-ZIP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The FAQ for the Info-ZIP project.
Deflate technical spec in ASCII format
The deflate technical specification in ASCII, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1951.
Gzip specification in PS format
The gzip technical specification in US size PostScript, by L. Peter Deutsch.
Gzip specification in ASCII format
The gzip technical specification in ASCII, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1952.
The gzip technical specification in A4 size PostScript, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1952. There are many links to this document stored in various places, but this database will only have links to the versions at www.cdrom.com and the IETF pages.
What is an archiver?
Answer to this question from the comp.compression FAQ.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-4.html
Which books should I read?
An answer to this question from the comp.compression FAQ.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-6.html
Zlib technical details
Some information regarding technical requirements of the zlib package
Compression of Random Data
The comp.compression FAQ addresses this topic, reluctantly.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-8.html
Fake Compression Programs
Sadly, people will sometimes attempt to dupe the public. The FAQ chronicles some of these attempts.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-9.html
Portable Network Graphics - PNG
The PNG project home page. If you want source code, information, or links relating to the PNG compressed image format, this is the place.
What is the V.42bis standard?
The comp.compression FAQ tells you a little bit about this modem standard.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-10.html
Where can I get image compression programs?
The comp.compression FAQ attempts to answer this question.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-13.html
What is the state of the art in lossless image compression?
The comp.compression FAQ attempts to answer this question.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-14.html
