Author's web page for the book by Iain Richardson, published by Wiley in Sept. 2003. The first book to cover H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) in technical detail. Focussing on compression tools and profiles for practical multimedia applications, this book is useful for developers, researchers, engineers and students. Besides the H.264 standard, the video codec general ideas and basics are discussed. There is also an overview of practical issues related to the design of software or
hardware implementations.
Created: 26/09/2005
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As the title says, this is the definitive guide to the PNG format. Greg discusses all aspects of PNG, including graphics programs, progrmaming with libpng, compression, filtering, the works. This is a must-read book if you want to support this free graphics format.
Created: 27/10/1999
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The second edition of Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell, is now available (May 1999), published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, San Francisco, ISBN 1-55860-570-3.
Created: 28/10/1999
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"Compressed Image File Formats is an appealingly compact and useful guide to some of today's most popular file formats used for image data. For any programmer who needs to know how images are stored, this concise reference can serve as a really invaluable resource."
Note that the source code for this book includes an independent implementation of a PNG codec, which may be one of a kind. Link to the source code on this page.
Created: 21/03/2003
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by David Salomon. "This book is intended to provide an overview of the many different types of compression: it includes a taxonomy, an analysis of the most common systems of compression, discussion of their relative benefits and disadvantages, and their most common usages."
Created: 08/11/1999
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The home page of The Data Compression Book. This is an introductory text oriented towards practical programming.
Created: 07/11/1999
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by Vasudev Bhaskaran, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9952-8, 472 pp., $69.82. Based on tutorials by the authors in several forums, introduces the underpinnings of compression for still images (JPEG), video teleconferencing (H.261 and H.263) and video storage and broadcasting (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2); and briefly describes the next generation of audiovisual coding standards such as MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. Emphasizes foundations such as predictive coding, transform-based coding, motion estimation and compensation, and entropy coding. Suitable for self-study by engineers or as a supplementary text in a graduate course, and assumes no prior knowledge of image or video compression theory or architecture, but some background in high-level hardware design.
Created: 30/12/2001
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by Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovacevic. This book is a hefty academic tome, described on this web page as: a comprehensive and unified presentation of discrete and continuous wavelets, filter banks and subband coding, as well as multiresolution signal processing, is given. It is intended for practitioners and researchers in the fields of signal processing and telecommunications, as well as applied mathematics and computer vision..
Created: 01/05/2002
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Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9048-2 October 1989, 208 pp. Part of the Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science.
Created: 19/01/2002
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By Rafail Krichevsky, Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk University, Russia. This volume constitutes a comprehensive self-contained course on source encoding.
Reader Yuriy R. says: A concise and rigorous course on universal source coding and universal information retrieval. Only suitable for math. oriented readers, graduate students, and researchers in these fields. Engineers expecting to find source-code of data compression algorithms shall look elsewhere.
Created: 19/01/2002
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ISBN: 0124580106, April 1997, US Price: $55.95. The publisher says: Fractal Imaging presents the logic, technology, and various uses of fractal imaging by analyzing a complete, usable fractal image representation system. The book appears to be designed to help apply fractal imaging.
Created: 02/07/2000
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by Khalid Sayood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 2000 600 pages, $69.95, ISBN 1-55860-558-4. This is a college level introductory text that covers a very wide range of data compression topics.
Created: 23/03/2000
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by D. T. Hoang and J. S. Vitter Efficient Algorithms fo MPEG Video Compression, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 2002. This book has just started shipping, I haven't seen a copy or heard any feedback yet. Provide some if possible!
Created: 07/04/2002
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Jerry Gibson, Toby Berger, Tom Lookabaugh, Rich Baker and David Lindberg. Drawing on their experience in industry, research, and academia, this powerful author team combines their expertise to provide an accessible guide to data compression standards and techniques and their applications.
Created: 27/12/1998
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A sample chapter from The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, which just happens to be on Data Compression. You can download this entire book for free from the web site.
Created: 13/01/2000
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by Alistair Moffat and Andrew Turpin. This book is scheduled for publication in 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers. This site has a table of contents and some sample pages to peruse while you wait for it to be printed.
Created: 23/05/2002
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"Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers describes the basic algorithms and approaches for compressing information so you can create the smallest files possible."
Created: 02/11/1999
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This book promises to tell you everything you need to know about video, which includes pertinent compression issues: H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and other video formats.
Created: 27/01/2002
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This book by David MacKay can be downloaded chapter by chapter and printed out for free. No indication that you can buy a hardcopy, although Amazon.com claims it will be published in January, 2002. Please read this 600 page tome and provide a review for this space!
Update: The author tells me this book will be published in November, 2003. The book will remain viewable on his website!
Created: 04/06/2003
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The University of Washington has a nice bibliography here, with pointers to books on Data Compression, VQ, Wavelets, and Information Theory.
Created: 04/05/2003
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by David S. Taubman, Michael W. Marcellin. This rather pricey book is listed as a reference for engineers and researchers who want to understand the JPEG2000 standard. Taubman is the author of the Kakadu tools, which are included on the CD (licensing terms unknown.) Use the link on this web page to buy the book - you'll help keep this site on line.
Created: 03/02/2002
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Sample pages on line from the book Discrete Cosine Transform: Algorithms, Advantages, Applications by Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao, P. Yip. The first 6 pages of the book are excerpted here, giving a complete history of the DCT.
Created: 28/11/2001
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Web page for a new book, Video Codec Design, to be published by Wiley in March 2002. Video Codec Design takes a design-based approach to image and video compression. The book covers the JPEG, JPEG2K, MPEG1/2/4 and H.261/3/L standards and gives detailed guidance on designing image and video compression applications.
DataCompression.info reader Eduardo M. said this was very easy to read and understand, but he would have liked some code examples.
Created: 11/11/2001
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by Robert B. Ash. This book gets a couple of five star ratings on Amazon.com. If you're the type to pay close attention to your budget, you'll like the fact that it sells for under $10!
Created: 11/08/2001
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by Ali N. Akansu, Richard A. Haddad. This book covers the areas you need to know in order to understand much of modern singal compression techniques. The second edition was issued in January, 2001.
Created: 11/08/2001
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by Majid Rabbani and Paul W. Jones. This book shows up in at least one bibiblography, I would appreciate reviews from a reader.
Created: 05/08/2001
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by Allen Gersho and Robert M. Gray. This book shows up in at least one bibiblography, I would appreciate reviews from a reader.
Created: 05/08/2001
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The book that accompanies the course of the same name. Russian-language submitter reports that the book has info on RLE, LZW, CCITT Group 3, Jpeg, Wavelet, and Fractal compression.
Created: 02/07/2001
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Subtitled Basics, Standards and Wavelet-Based Algorithms for Image and Video Coding. This German-language textbook contains full source code (ANSI-C) of a wavelet-based image coder.
Created: 04/01/2001
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This bibliography is the best attempt at a complete record of all the written works of Claude Shannon, father of Information Theory.
Created: 23/09/2000
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According to the publisher, this contains all of Shannon's published works, plus papers that were previously unpublished for various reasons, including wartime secrecy.
Created: 29/07/2000
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by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas. This is an introductory text on Info Theory, covering all the basics, which of course includes coding and data compression.
Created: 29/07/2000
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Home page for the book: Introduction to
Information Theory and Data Compression
Darrel Hankerson, Greg A. Harris, and Peter D. Johnson Jr.
Created: 03/06/2000
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by Hankersson et. al. Hardcover - 330 pages (November 1997) CRC Press; ISBN: 0849339855. A textbook for upper-level or graduate course on compression. Please use the link on this page to purchase this book, it will help support the Data Compression Library.
Created: 24/11/1999
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by Michael F. Barnsley. A revised and updated textbook focusing on how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world. DCL reader TJ says This is, in my experience, the best mathematics book I have ever seen If you are interested in buying this book, please use the link on this page. Your purchase will help to support this site.
Created: 14/11/1999
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by Gilbert Held, Thomas R. Marshall. < If you are interested in buying this book, please use the link on this page. Your purchase will help to support this site.
Created: 14/11/1999
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by Yuval Fisher (Editor). Featuring a collection of articles by twelve experts in the field of fractal image compression, this book contains the complete details of how to encode and decode images, offering working codes that are usable in applications. Includes some of the latest results in this field.. If you are interested in buying this book, please use the link on this page. Your purchase will help to support this site.
Created: 13/02/1999
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