Course related pointers

• Course Syllabus
• Course Calendar
• Course Assignments
• Example multimedia objects
• Khalid Sayood (author of course textbook)
• Compression software and data sets provided by Khalid Sayood
• How to set up a web site

• Other books on data compression
• ASCII Conversion Chart
• Integer Representations (unsigned, biased, signed magnitude, 1s complement, 2s complement)
• Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• Introduction article on data compression
• Canterbury Corpus
• Standard Generalized MarkUp Language (SGML) - representing text in electronic form
• Hypertext MarkUp Language (HTML)
• Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
• Gadsby - a book with no 'E's
• La Disparation - a french book with no 'E's

• LZW and GIF explained
• GIF89a specification
• Archive Comparison Test   - comparison of over 100 lossless compression techniques
• PNG specification
• Facsimile specification - ITU Recommendation T.6 (pdf)
• TIFF specifications (.ps.Z)

• What is JPEG?   (frequently asked questions)
• JPEG2000 Draft Standard CD15444-1 (.pdf)
• .mp3 specification
• What is wavelet compression (by Amara Graps)?  (pdf)
• Deja Vu Image Compressor - DjVu
• Image Compression Using the Haar Wavelet Transform (by Colm Mulcahy) (pdf)
• Wavelets for Computer Graphics: A Primer (by Stollnitz) (pdf)
• Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets (by Colm Mulcahy)  (pdf)
• File Formats and software to decode them
• Content-aware image resizing (by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir) (youtube video)