A Guide to Data Compression Methods

By: David Salomon

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Paperback | 1 February 2002

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The book is about compressing all types of computer data and what methods and algorithms to use. Its purpose is to describe and explain the principles behind the growing field of data compression and how to use them effectively. The discussion concentrates on general principles and methods all describes them with a minimum amount of mathematics. The book is aimed toward readers who do not have much background in computers and want to understand how data can be compressed. The reader can expect to gain a basic understanding of the important algorithms and methods used to compress data.Topics and features:- acceptable to use with only minimum computer and math background;- coverage of principles and general approaches, as well as specific methods and algorithms;- useful glossary with all basic terms for the field;- helpful appendix lists all algorithms presented in the book;- CD-ROM included with book comprising useful computer code used in the book and public-domain compression programs.

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"The author has done an excellent job. He has written a practical guidebook that covers the range of compression issues, from arithmetic compression to wavelet compression, passing through compression methods for static images, video, and audio. The mathematical framework used in comprehensive without being messy. The author describes every method with no more than the necessary mathematical theory. He also provides easy-to-follow examples, which solve the few doubts the reader might have after reading the theory." --Computing Reviews

"The current book is intended for people interested in a basic understanding of the increasingly important field of data compression ... . this book is nicely written and well organized. ... the author has done a very good job in explaining all these complicated concepts, and presenting related algorithms and their analysis, with a minimal amount of mathematics. This is remarkable. Another good feature of this book is that... it contains many examples that are well chosen, easy to follow, and real." (Zhizhang Shen, Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 996 (21), 2002)

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Statistical Methods	p. 9
Entropy	p. 9
Variable-Size Codes	p. 10
Decoding	p. 12
Huffman Coding	p. 12
Adaptive Huffman Coding	p. 22
Facsimile Compression	p. 32
Arithmetic Coding	p. 40
Adaptive Arithmetic Coding	p. 52
Dictionary Methods	p. 57
LZ77 (Sliding Window)	p. 59
LZSS	p. 62
LZ78	p. 66
LZW	p. 69
Summary	p. 80
Image Compression	p. 81
Introduction	p. 82
Image Types	p. 87
Approaches to Image Compression	p. 88
Intuitive Methods	p. 103
Image Transforms	p. 104
Progressive Image Compression	p. 135
JPEG	p. 140
JPEG-LS	p. 159
Wavelet Methods	p. 167
Averaging and Differencing	p. 167
The Haar Transform	p. 181
Subband Transforms	p. 185
Filter Banks	p. 190
Deriving the Filter Coefficients	p. 197
The DWT	p. 199
Examples	p. 203
The Daubechies Wavelets	p. 207
SPIHT	p. 214
Video Compression	p. 227
Basic Principles	p. 227
Suboptimal Search Methods	p. 233
Audio Compression	p. 241
Sound	p. 242
Digital Audio	p. 245
The Human Auditory System	p. 247
Conventional Methods	p. 250
MPEG-1 Audio Layers	p. 253
Bibliography	p. 269
Glossary	p. 275
Joining the Data Compression Community	p. 284
App. of Algorithms	p. 285
Index	p. 287
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