A Concise Introduction to Data Compression

• Main Author: Salomon, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Computer Science.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.

Compressing data is an option naturally selected when faced with problems of high costs or restricted space. Written by a renowned expert in the field, this book offers readers a succinct, reader-friendly foundation to the chief approaches, methods and techniques currently employed in the field of d...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Concepts
• Approaches to Compression
• Huffman Coding
• Dictionary Methods
• Advanced Techniques
• Arithmetic Coding
• Image Compression
• Audio Compression
• Other Methods.