Data Compression

• Algorithms
  • @Data Compression: Burrows-Wheeler Transform
  • Arithmetic Coding
    • Ashok C. Popat's dissertation
    • Calgary arithmetic coding corner
    • Software Implementing Arithmetic Coding (Radford Neal)
  • Image (lossy) compression and related
    • JPEG.org
    • Discrete Wavelet Transform (NASA)
    • Wavelet Resources (MathSoft)
    • MPEG Home Page
    • Fractal Image Encoding
• @Data Compression: People
• @Data Compression: Link Farms
• @Software w/ source code
• comp.compression FAQ
• An archive of comp.compression
• Data Compression Conference
• Archive Comparison Test
• Corpi
  • The Canterbury Corpus (new standard corpus for testing compressing algorithms)
• Books
  • Text Compression ( Timothy C. Bell, Ian H. Witten, Ian Whitten, 1990)
  • The Data Compression Book (Mark Nelson, Jean-Loup Gailly, 1995)
  • Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell)
  • Mpeg Video: Compression Standard (Joan L. Mitchell (Editor), William B. Pennebaker (Editor), Chad E. Fogg, 1996)
• Courses
  • Data Compression - CSC 5257
• Papers
  • LZRW4 (Ziv and Lempel meet Markov by Ross Williams, 1991)
  • ACB, DMC, PPM, LZ - Classification, Idea, Comparision (George Buyanovsky)
  • PPM Papers
  • Context-Tree Weighting
  • ResearchIndex: Compression
• Newsgroups
  • [alt.comp.compression:alt.comp.compression]
  • [comp.arch.storage:comp.arch.storage]
  • [comp.compression:comp.compression]
  • [alt.comp.compression.research:alt.comp.compression.research]
• Compression and cryptography
  • Some Applications of Source Coding in Cryptography (James L. Massey, 1994)
  • People
    • Chandrapal Kailasanathan (Wollongong (several relevant publications))
• Trolls
  • Patent 5,533,051 on compression of random data (Jean-loup Gailly)

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