Course: CISC 451/651: Data Compression in Multimedia
Professor:
Paul D.Amer
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
General pointers
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
Lossless Compression
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)
Lossy Compression
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)