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- Mark Nelson: The Data Compression Book,
- ISBN (w/o IBM src disk): 1-55851-214-4 $26.95
- (w/ IBM src disk): 1-55851-216-0 $36.95
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- Very good book. The source code is in C and even a beginner can understand the
- theories AND the C code (High level language exp. helps, but not nec.).
- Main Topic List:
- Data Compression History + Lexicon
- Minimum Redundancy Coding (Huffman Coding, Shannon-Fano Alg)
- Adaptive Huffman Coding
- Arithmetic Coding (great stuff!)
- Statistical Modeling
- Dictionary-Based Compression
- Sliding Window Compression (Lempel-Ziv 77 + LZSS)
- Lempel-Ziv 78 + LZW
- Speech Compression (lossless and lossy)
- Lossy Graphics Compression (JPEG + DCT)
- An Archiving package example (PC based)
- There is some mention of patents in this book, but it isn't a good source
- for that type of info.
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- There's lots-o-code and plenty of tables comparing performances.
- The Bibliography and Afterward are even good.
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- The Data Compression Book is a must for every boy and girl who wants to
- learn compression.
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- Enjoy,
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