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The JBIG Home Page

Home page for the members of the JBIG committee, as well as a place for links and information about the Bi-Level Image coding standard.

http://www.jbig.org/jbig/index.html

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Posted in May 15th, 2004

Feature Comparison of Popular Zip Compression Components

There are many Zip compression components in the marketplace. This web page is a summary of the most popular Zip components available and provides a side-by-side comparison of the features and pricing of each. This review focuses on components used by Microsoft developers in Visual Basic, ASP, Visual C++, and Visual FoxPro applications.

http://componentreview.tripod.com/

         

Posted in October 30th, 2002

Ansme.com Directory - Data Compression Entry

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I’m not familiar with this directory, but they do have a good list of data compression links here.

http://directory.ansme.com/computers/96710.html

         

Posted in April 4th, 2002

Standard ECMA-222 Adaptive Lossless Data Compression Algorithm

This page has the standard publication that defines ECMA-222, which is also apparently known as ALDC. I don’t know where this standard is used.

http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-222.HTM

         

Posted in December 5th, 2001

Radford Neal’s Home Page

Radford Neal is a professor at the University of Toronto. One of his research interests is data compression, and his name appears on a couple of seminal papers on arithmetic coding. Links to papers can be found here.

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford/

         

Posted in May 31st, 2000

Image Power Selected by the ISO Committee as Reference Code Supplier for JPEG 2000

An Image Power press release announcing the fact that the JPEG2000 committee has annointed them to supply the reference code for the new standard.

http://www.imagepower.com/news/media_center/pr/2000/pr-mar27-00.html

         

Posted in April 13th, 2000

JPEG 2000 Codec

Image Power has released a beta version of their JPEG2000 codec. It’s free to use for evaluation and non-commercial applications.

http://www.imagepower.com/products/products.htm

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Posted in April 12th, 2000

CAB Station

This is the home page of CAB station, and inexpensive program that manipulates Microsoft CAB files.

http://www.angove.com/

         

Posted in April 2nd, 2000

Bi-Level Image Coding (JBIG-2)

A free JBIG-2 coder.

http://spmg.ece.ubc.ca/jbig2/software/main.html

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Posted in January 7th, 2000

Microsoft Cabinet SDK

Microsoft’s CAB SDK, and a little bit of documentation to go with it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/management/cab/cabdl.asp

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Posted in January 1st, 2000

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.

http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu/

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Posted in December 31st, 1999

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Information about JPEG images

http://home.netscape.com/assist/helper_apps/jpeg.txt

         

Posted in November 29th, 1999

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ftp://dna.stanford.edu/pub/canterbury

         

Posted in November 28th, 1999

The Piecewise-Constant Image Model

Caravian has developed a proprietary compression algorithm for palettized images. They claim substantial imporvement over conventional GIF compression. Their web site has an ActiveX plug-in for demonstrating the technology, but it isn’t clear exactly what they are selling. The site is rather vague about specifics.

http://www.caravian.com/

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Posted in November 28th, 1999

Home of jZip, a java based zip program

http://www.ut.ee/~bill/

         

Posted in November 27th, 1999

The JPEG FAQ

What the title says.

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/jpeg-faq/top.html

         

Posted in November 22nd, 1999

CRC-32


http://www.arturocampos.com/ac_crc32.html

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Posted in November 17th, 1999

Fractal Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

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Mirror of the FAQ

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/fractal-faq

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Posted in November 14th, 1999

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FTP directory containin the suite of test images used in the PNG test suite from Willem van Schaik

ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/images/suite/

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

DENOISE

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A huge program that shows up in a Wavelets link page. I’m not using it because it appears to not be related to data compression.

http://pascal.math.yale.edu/pub/wavelets/software/denoise/demo-sparc/

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

Gordon Cormac’s BWT links

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http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/cs798d/burrowswheeler.html

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

Greg Roelofs’ home page.

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http://pobox.com/~newt/

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

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http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/infozip/zlib/zlib.html

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

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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.

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/techreports/

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

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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.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1952-a4.ps

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

Giflib 4.1

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a copy of giflib

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/giflib/giflib-4.1.0.tar.gz

         

Posted in November 13th, 1999

Datenkompression

A German language set of data compression links. A pretty good page of links, it probably doesn’t matter whether you speak German or not; the references mostly point to English language resources.

http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~bernhard/common/itlinks_fb.html

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Posted in November 11th, 1999

Adaptive Huffman Coding

A nice description of Adaptive Huffman Coding, as seen through a couple of different algorithms. I believe this is part of a survey paper by Debra A. Lelewer and Daniel S. Hirschberg.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/pubs/DC-Sec4.html

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Posted in November 10th, 1999

Complex Systems VL- by themes - Fractals

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http://lorenz.mur.csu.edu.au/complex/library/0Fractals.html

         

Posted in November 9th, 1999

Uzi Vishkin

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Home Page for Uzi Vishkin, of University of Maryland. Areas of research of interest in data compression include suffix trees and string matching.

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/vishkin

         

Posted in November 9th, 1999