Recursive Source Coding: A Theory for the Practice of Waveform Coding - Hardcover

G. Gabor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038796309X ISBN 13: 9780387963099

Publisher: Springer, 1986

Synopsis

The spreading of digital technology has resulted in a dramatic increase in the demand for data compression (DC) methods. At the same time, the appearance of highly integrated elements has made more and more com­ plicated algorithms feasible. It is in the fields of speech and image trans­ mission and the transmission and storage of biological signals (e.g., ECG, Body Surface Mapping) where the demand for DC algorithms is greatest. There is, however, a substantial gap between the theory and the practice of an essentially nonconstructive information theoretical attitude and the attractive mathematics of source coding theory are contrasted with a mixture of ad hoc engineering methods. The classical Shannonian infor­ mation theory is fundamentally different from the world of practical pro­ cedures. Theory places great emphasis on block-coding while practice is overwhelmingly dominated by theoretically intractable, mostly differential­ predictive coding (DPC), algorithms. A dialogue between theory and practice has been hindered by two pro­ foundly different conceptions of a data practice, mostly because of speech compression considerations, favors non stationary models, while the theory deals mostly with stationary ones.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 038796309X
• ISBN 13: 9780387963099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 98