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comp.compression Frequently Asked Questions - List from Usenet.

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.

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.

The LBE Data Compression Algorithm - A Huffman like algorithm that uses triangular matrices, rather than binary trees, for string substitution. Free source code available.

Dr Ross's Compression Crypt - LZRW* text compression algorithms. Links to other compression sites.

Data Compression Reference Center - Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, and a glossary.

Arturo Campos: Compression Programming - Articles on various compression algorithms.

Data-Compression.com - A website devoted to the principles and practice of data compression.

3D Graphics Compression Homepage - A directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web.

Sparse Matrix Compression Schemes - Pseudocode for a spare matrix compression algorithm.

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.

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.

Practical Huffman Coding - A tutorial by Michael Schindler.

ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue - Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Tutorial on Image Compression - A tutorial on Image Compression, with step by step procedural examples and list of references, along with sample code.

PKZIP Application Note - Describes the compression and decompression algorithms used by PKZIP.

Groovyweb Compression Tutorials - Compression tutorials, links to other compression sites and compression downloads.

Vcodex - Video and image coding tutorials, links, resources and research.

DataCompression.info - Directory of data compression sites. Allows user to rate the listed sites.

The Data Compression Resource - Algorithms, links, comparisons, conferences and the home of the compressor ABC.

Gray, Robert M. - Vector quantization for signal compression and classification.

Kieffer, John - Universal algorithms, multiresolution methods, wavelets and fractals, rate-distortion theory, and quantizer theory.

Nelson, Mark - Coauthor of "The Data Compression Book." Addisoft Consulting, Inc.

Phong, Dario - Arithmetic, Huffman, and Lempel-Ziv entropy coding.

Florencio, Dinei - Perfect Reconstruction Non-Linear Filter Banks, the Motion Transform. Formerly a student at Georgia Tech.

Chen, Tsuhan - Audio-visual interaction and collaboration, video coding and multimedia communication.

Moffat, Alistair - University of Melbourne. Interests include text, image, and index compression.

Huffman, David A. - Huffman codes, digital signal processing, scene analysis. Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCSC.

Effros, Michelle - Assistant professor at CalTech. Communications, compression, information theory, image processing.

Delp, Edward J. - Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Communication Theory. Professor at Purdue.

Simoncelli, Eero - Computer vision, image processing, motion, and compression.

Nosratinia, Aria - Joint Source-channel coding, image and video processing. Assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas.

Moulin, Pierre - Image and video processing. Assistant Professor of ECE at UIUC.

Fowler, James E. - Assistant professor at Mississippi State. Image and video processing and coding.

Gilchrist, Jeff - Author of the Archive Comparison Test (data compression benchmarks) and researcher in the area of cryptography and distributed computing.

Vinokur, Alex - Huffman Coding (including n-ary Huffman Template Algorithm). At Tadiran Scopus.

Nosratinia, Aria - (old student pages)

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.

Uytterhoeven, Geert - Wavelets with integer lifting. Student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Wiegand, Thomas - Rate-Distortion, affine video coding. Student at Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Cover, Thomas - Coauthor of "Elements of Information Theory." Professor at Stanford.

Storer, Jim - The Data Compression Conference.

Gailly, Jean-loup - Author of gzip, zlib, coauthor of "The Data Compression Book. "

Langdon, Glen G., Jr. - Arithmetic coding. Professor of Computer Engineering at UCSC.

Verdu, Sergio - Rate-distortion theory, source coding. Professor at Princeton.

Williams, Ross N. - Variations on Lempen Ziv coding.

Witten, Ian H. - Coauthor of "Managing Gigabytes." Professor of CS at the University of Waikato.

Taubman, David S. - At the University of New South Wales. Image and video compression and processing.

Adler, Mark - Works at JPL. Information-ZIP, gzip, zlib, and PNG.

Zakhor, Avideh - Professor at Berkeley. Image and video compression.

Chrysafis, Christos - Wavelet-based image compression. Student at USC.

Lê, Minh Thinh - Fast VQ and motion estimation on RAM with computational capability.

Vitter, Jeff - Chair of CS department at Duke. Interests include dynamic Huffman codes, arithmetic coding, lossless image compression, and motion compensation for video coding.

Ramchandran, Kannan - Image and video compression and modeling. Professor at Berkley.

Yew, Tham Jo - Image and video compression, motion estimation and compensation Student at the National Univ. of Singapore.

Teahan, Bill - Prediction by partial matching (PPM). At the Robert Gordon University.

Creusere, Charles - Perfect reconstruction filter banks, wavelets, video compression. Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.

Bell, Timothy C. - Author of "Managing Gigabytes." CS department head at the University of Canterbury.

Frey, Brendan J. - Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Source coding, computer vision, and interative decoding.

Strutz, Tilo - University of Rostock, Signal and Image Processing group. Research interests: Data compression, Systematisation. Software, papers and textbook on Image Data Compression.

Abel, Jürgen - Lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT), author of ABC.

UCLA - Image Communications Laboratory. News, publications, project descriptions, resources.

University of British Columbia SPMG - H.263+ code hosted here.

USC SIPI - Signal and Image Processing Institute.

UIUC - Image Formation and Processing Group. Image/video compression.

UC Berkeley - Video and Image Processing Lab. Members, research projects, publications, software, resources.

Stanford University - Information Systems Laboratory, Signal Compression and Classification Group. Members' pages.

Digital Video Coding at Telenor R&D - Home page of the Digital Video Coding group at Telenor R&D.

Waterloo University - Fractal Compression Project.

CMU Advanced Multimedia Processing Group - A long-term activity is focused on H.263+ standard work.

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.

Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen - Image Communication Technology Group. Video and image coding research: variable-complexity algorithms, architectures and applications.

DCC - The Data Compression Conference. Programmes from 1991. Most recent meeting: Snowbird, Utah, USA; 2--4 April 2002.

Asilomar - Annual Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers held in Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Next meeting: 3--6 November 2002.

VLBV98 - International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding. Urbana, IL, USA; 8--9 October 1998.

Redstone Compression Conference - Workshop on Data Compression Processing Techniques for Missile Guidance Data Links. Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, USA; 2--3 December 1998.

Combinatorial Pattern Matching - 10th Annual Symposium. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK; 20--24 July 1999.

ICASSP 2000 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Istanbul, Turkey; 9 June 2000. Keynote presentations available on-line.

ICIP-2001 - International Conference on Image Processing, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Thessaloniki, Greece; 7--10 October 2001.

ICIP 2000 - International Conference Image Processing. Vancouver, BC, Canada; 10--13 September 2000.

ISCAS 2000 - International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Geneva, Switzerland; 28--31 May 2000.

MMSP99 - 1999 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. Copenhagen, Denmark; 13--15 September 1999.

Packet Video 2000 - Workshop sponsored by Eurasip, and IEEE. Forte Village Resort (Ca), Italy; 1--2 May 2000.

Data Compression in Networks and Applications - DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; 18--20 March 2002.

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.

CMU Computer Vision Images - List of sites (intended for computer vision use) from CMU.

The Visible Human - The Visible Human Project has many medical images.

The Japanese Female Facial Expression Image Database - Database of facial expression images freely available for research purposes.

Image Processing: the Lena Story - The history of one of the most well-known test images: Lena Sjooblom.

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