
Computers - Algorithms - Compression


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comp.compression Frequently Asked Questions
- List from Usenet.
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Mitsuharu Arimura's Data Compression Pointers
- Very large list of links, including books and lecture notes, benchmarkings, archives, image/graphic compression, fractal compression, wavelets, video and audio compression, and links to other link lists.
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How Stuff Works: How File Compression Works
- Detailed narrative fully describes how a file is actually deflated, or compressed to get rid of redundancy - and save space.
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The LBE Data Compression Algorithm
- A Huffman like algorithm that uses triangular matrices, rather than binary trees, for string substitution. Free source code available.
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Dr Ross's Compression Crypt
- LZRW* text compression algorithms. Links to other compression sites.
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Data Compression Reference Center
- Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, and a glossary.
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Arturo Campos: Compression Programming
- Articles on various compression algorithms.
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Data-Compression.com
- A website devoted to the principles and practice of data compression.
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3D Graphics Compression Homepage
- A directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web.
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Sparse Matrix Compression Schemes
- Pseudocode for a spare matrix compression algorithm.
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The Canterbury Corpus
- A set of benchmark results for various lossless compression methods. Includes test files and compression test results for many research compression methods.
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MotionWavelets601 software video decoder
- A software only codec and API for remotely decoding and displaying video files compressed with the ADV601 chip from Analog Devices; Windows only.
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Practical Huffman Coding
- A tutorial by Michael Schindler.
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ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue
- Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Tutorial on Image Compression
- A tutorial on Image Compression, with step by step procedural examples and list of references, along with sample code.
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PKZIP Application Note
- Describes the compression and decompression algorithms used by PKZIP.
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Groovyweb Compression Tutorials
- Compression tutorials, links to other compression sites and compression downloads.
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Vcodex
- Video and image coding tutorials, links, resources and research.
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DataCompression.info
- Directory of data compression sites. Allows user to rate the listed sites.
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The Data Compression Resource
- Algorithms, links, comparisons, conferences and the home of the compressor ABC.
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Gray, Robert M.
- Vector quantization for signal compression and classification.
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Kieffer, John
- Universal algorithms, multiresolution methods, wavelets and fractals, rate-distortion theory, and quantizer theory.
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Nelson, Mark
- Coauthor of "The Data Compression Book." Addisoft Consulting, Inc.
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Phong, Dario
- Arithmetic, Huffman, and Lempel-Ziv entropy coding.
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Florencio, Dinei
- Perfect Reconstruction Non-Linear Filter Banks, the Motion Transform. Formerly a student at Georgia Tech.
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Chen, Tsuhan
- Audio-visual interaction and collaboration, video coding and multimedia communication.
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Moffat, Alistair
- University of Melbourne. Interests include text, image, and index compression.
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Huffman, David A.
- Huffman codes, digital signal processing, scene analysis. Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCSC.
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Effros, Michelle
- Assistant professor at CalTech. Communications, compression, information theory, image processing.
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Delp, Edward J.
- Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Communication Theory. Professor at Purdue.
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Simoncelli, Eero
- Computer vision, image processing, motion, and compression.
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Nosratinia, Aria
- Joint Source-channel coding, image and video processing. Assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas.
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Moulin, Pierre
- Image and video processing. Assistant Professor of ECE at UIUC.
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Fowler, James E.
- Assistant professor at Mississippi State. Image and video processing and coding.
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Gilchrist, Jeff
- Author of the Archive Comparison Test (data compression benchmarks) and researcher in the area of cryptography and distributed computing.
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Vinokur, Alex
- Huffman Coding (including n-ary Huffman Template Algorithm). At Tadiran Scopus.
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Nosratinia, Aria
- (old student pages)
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Ortega, Antonio
- Digital Image and Video Communication Systems, Adaptive and Multiresolution Compression Techniques, and Joint Source-Channel Coding For Transmission Over Broadcast Channels and Packet Networks. Assistant Professor at USC.
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Uytterhoeven, Geert
- Wavelets with integer lifting. Student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Wiegand, Thomas
- Rate-Distortion, affine video coding. Student at Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
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Cover, Thomas
- Coauthor of "Elements of Information Theory." Professor at Stanford.
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Storer, Jim
- The Data Compression Conference.
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Gailly, Jean-loup
- Author of gzip, zlib, coauthor of "The Data Compression Book. "
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Langdon, Glen G., Jr.
- Arithmetic coding. Professor of Computer Engineering at UCSC.
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Verdu, Sergio
- Rate-distortion theory, source coding. Professor at Princeton.
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Williams, Ross N.
- Variations on Lempen Ziv coding.
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Witten, Ian H.
- Coauthor of "Managing Gigabytes." Professor of CS at the University of Waikato.
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Taubman, David S.
- At the University of New South Wales. Image and video compression and processing.
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Adler, Mark
- Works at JPL. Information-ZIP, gzip, zlib, and PNG.
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Zakhor, Avideh
- Professor at Berkeley. Image and video compression.
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Chrysafis, Christos
- Wavelet-based image compression. Student at USC.
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Lê, Minh Thinh
- Fast VQ and motion estimation on RAM with computational capability.
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Vitter, Jeff
- Chair of CS department at Duke. Interests include dynamic Huffman codes, arithmetic coding, lossless image compression, and motion compensation for video coding.
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Ramchandran, Kannan
- Image and video compression and modeling. Professor at Berkley.
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Yew, Tham Jo
- Image and video compression, motion estimation and compensation Student at the National Univ. of Singapore.
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Teahan, Bill
- Prediction by partial matching (PPM). At the Robert Gordon University.
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Creusere, Charles
- Perfect reconstruction filter banks, wavelets, video compression. Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.
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Bell, Timothy C.
- Author of "Managing Gigabytes." CS department head at the University of Canterbury.
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Frey, Brendan J.
- Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Source coding, computer vision, and interative decoding.
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Strutz, Tilo
- University of Rostock, Signal and Image Processing group. Research interests: Data compression, Systematisation. Software, papers and textbook on Image Data Compression.
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Abel, Jürgen
- Lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT), author of ABC.
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UCLA
- Image Communications Laboratory. News, publications, project descriptions, resources.
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University of British Columbia SPMG
- H.263+ code hosted here.
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USC SIPI
- Signal and Image Processing Institute.
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UIUC
- Image Formation and Processing Group. Image/video compression.
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UC Berkeley
- Video and Image Processing Lab. Members, research projects, publications, software, resources.
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Stanford University
- Information Systems Laboratory, Signal Compression and Classification Group. Members' pages.
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Digital Video Coding at Telenor R&D
- Home page of the Digital Video Coding group at Telenor R&D.
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Waterloo University
- Fractal Compression Project.
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CMU Advanced Multimedia Processing Group
- A long-term activity is focused on H.263+ standard work.
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Image Communication Group, Heinrich Hertz Institute
- Contains information about the scientists and their research. The group is very active in research and standardization (ITU-T VCEG, MPEG) for the field of video coding and transmission.
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Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
- Image Communication Technology Group. Video and image coding research: variable-complexity algorithms, architectures and applications.
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DCC
- The Data Compression Conference. Programmes from 1991. Most recent meeting: Snowbird, Utah, USA; 2--4 April 2002.
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Asilomar
- Annual Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers held in Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Next meeting: 3--6 November 2002.
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VLBV98
- International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding. Urbana, IL, USA; 8--9 October 1998.
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Redstone Compression Conference
- Workshop on Data Compression Processing Techniques for Missile Guidance Data Links. Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, USA; 2--3 December 1998.
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Combinatorial Pattern Matching
- 10th Annual Symposium. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK; 20--24 July 1999.
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ICASSP 2000
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Istanbul, Turkey; 9 June 2000. Keynote presentations available on-line.
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ICIP-2001
- International Conference on Image Processing, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Thessaloniki, Greece; 7--10 October 2001.
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ICIP 2000
- International Conference Image Processing. Vancouver, BC, Canada; 10--13 September 2000.
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ISCAS 2000
- International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Geneva, Switzerland; 28--31 May 2000.
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MMSP99
- 1999 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. Copenhagen, Denmark; 13--15 September 1999.
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Packet Video 2000
- Workshop sponsored by Eurasip, and IEEE. Forte Village Resort (Ca), Italy; 1--2 May 2000.
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Data Compression in Networks and Applications
- DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; 18--20 March 2002.
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USC-SIPI Image Database
- A collection of digitised images in TIFF format. Catalogue in PDF. Previews free on-line, database can be purchased on magnetic tape.
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CMU Computer Vision Images
- List of sites (intended for computer vision use) from CMU.
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The Visible Human
- The Visible Human Project has many medical images.
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The Japanese Female Facial Expression Image Database
- Database of facial expression images freely available for research purposes.
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Image Processing: the Lena Story
- The history of one of the most well-known test images: Lena Sjooblom.