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Concise Introduction To Data Compression

Material type: TextTextEdition: 1Description: 310ISBN:
  • 9788184897517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.746 SAL-C
Summary: Compressing data is an option naturally selected when faced with problems of high costsor restricted space. Written by a renowned expert in the fi eld, this book offers readers asuccinct, reader-friendly foundation to the chief approaches, methods and techniques currentlyemployed in the fi eld of data compression.Part I presents the basic approaches to data compression and describes a few popular techniquesand methods commonly used to compress data. The reader discovers essential concepts, such asvariable-length and prefi x codes, statistical distributions and run-length encoding. Part II thenconcentrates on advanced techniques, such as arithmetic coding, orthogonal transforms, subbandtransforms and the Burrows-Wheeler transforms.
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Compressing data is an option naturally selected when faced with problems of high costsor restricted space. Written by a renowned expert in the fi eld, this book offers readers asuccinct, reader-friendly foundation to the chief approaches, methods and techniques currentlyemployed in the fi eld of data compression.Part I presents the basic approaches to data compression and describes a few popular techniquesand methods commonly used to compress data. The reader discovers essential concepts, such asvariable-length and prefi x codes, statistical distributions and run-length encoding. Part II thenconcentrates on advanced techniques, such as arithmetic coding, orthogonal transforms, subbandtransforms and the Burrows-Wheeler transforms.

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