CompSci 267: Data Compression -- Fall 2008

• Lectures: Tu Th 9:30-10:50am in ICS 243

• Professor: Dan Hirschberg -- dan at ics.uci.edu
  • Office: DBH 4226, 824-6480

• Pre- or co-requisites: CompSci 161 or CompSci 260 or CompSci 261

• Recommended textbook: K. Sayood, Introduction to Data Compression, 3rd edition. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2006.
  The associated website contains programs and data files.

Course outline

• Introduction
• Coding
• Modeling
• Text Compression Systems
• Lossless Image Compression
• Lossy Compression
• Lossy Image Compression
• Audio Compression

Requirements

• homework
• no examinations
• term project (and 15-20 minute class presentation)
  • previous years projects:    
    W'2000,   W'2001,   W'2002,   W'2003,   F'2003,   F'2004,   F'2005,   F'2006,   F'2007

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