TY  - BOOK
TI  - Concise Introduction To Data Compression
SN  - 9788184897517
U1  - 005.746 SAL-C 
KW  - Data compression (Computer science)
N2  - 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
ER  -