DATA COMPRESSION BOOK (B/D) - Softcover

NELSON

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013202862X ISBN 13: 9780132028622

Publisher: Longman Higher Education Division (a Pearson Education company), 1992

Synopsis

Topics in this guide to data compression techniques include the Shannon-Fano and Huffman coding techniques, Lossy compression, the JPEG compression algorithm, and fractal compression. Readers also study adaptive Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary compression methods, and learn to write C programs for nearly any environment. The disk illustrates each learned technique and demonstrates how data compression works.

About this title

About the Author

MARK NELSON is a regular contributor to various technical publications including Dr. Dobbs Journal, Computer Language, and the C User's Journal. JEAN-LOUP GAILLY, a software consultant with more than 15 years of programming experience, wrote the compression code of the freeware zip archiver and is the author of the gzip data-compression program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman Higher Education Division (a Pearson Education company)
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013202862X
• ISBN 13: 9780132028622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350