The Data Compression Book

✍ Scribed by Mark Nelson, Jean-Loup Gailly

• Book ID: 127457248
• Publisher: M&T Books
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Edition: 2 Pap/Dsk
• Category: Library
• ISBN: 1558514341

✦ Synopsis

Topics in this guide to data compression techniques include the Shannon-Fano and Huffman coding techniques, Lossy compression, the JPEG compression algorithm, and fractal compression. Readers also study adaptive Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary compression methods, and learn to write C programs for nearly any environment. The disk illustrates each learned technique and demonstrates how data compression works.