Introduction to Data Compression

by Khalid Sayood

Introduction to Data Compression, Fourth Edition, is a concise and comprehensive guide to the art and science of data compression. This new edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class. It provides an extensive introduction to the theory underlying today’s compression techniques with detailed instruction for their applications using several examples to explain the concepts.Encompassing the entire field of data compression, this book covers lossless and lossy compression, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary techniques, context based compression, scalar and vector quantization. New to this fourth edition is a more detailed description of the JPEG 2000 standard as well as speech coding for internet applications. A source code is also provided via a companion web site that gives readers the opportunity to build their own algorithms, choose and implement techniques in their own applications.This text will appeal to professionals, software and hardware engineers, students, and anyone interested in digital libraries and multimedia. New content added to include a more detailed description of the JPEG 2000 standard New content includes speech coding for internet applications Explains established and emerging standards in depth including JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS, MPEG-2, H.264, JBIG 2, ADPCM, LPC, CELP, MELP, and iLBC Source code provided via companion web site that gives readers the opportunity to build their own algorithms, choose and implement techniques in their own applications

Genres: Computer Science, Technical, Mathematics

765 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Koen Crolla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sayood is a lot better at explaining things that are relatively new to him (e.g. the Burrows-Wheeler transform) than things that have been second nature for decades; I don't care what your academic background is, introducing run-length encoding through Markov chains is pretentious as all hell.
Still, a thorough overview of data compression (both lossless and lossy) and its applications. While it's less accessible than, say, The Data Compression Book, it covers all of that book's ground and much, much more.

[Tsvetan Penev · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gave a very nice introduction on the topic of compression. I can highly recommend it if you are new to the subject, have some mathematics background and would like to know more about the innerwortkings of data compression

[mkay313 · Rating 4 out of 5]

To be completely honest I haven't read this cover to cover, some parts are approached from the worst angle possible and I made the choice to supplement it by watching YT explanations... Still, a more-than-sufficient intro into data compression.

[Oleg Dats · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview.

[Duncan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good intro to compression. Probably not in-depth enough in both practice and theory, but it's a good intro to the field.