CompSci 267: Data Compression -- Fall 2009

• Lectures: M W F 10:00-10:50am in DBH 1423
  No lecture on M Sep 28

• 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 (slides accessable off-campus via VPN)

• Introduction
• Coding Techniques
• 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'00,   W'01,   W'02,   W'03,   F'03,   F'04,   F'05,   F'06,   F'07,   F'08
  • Approved student projects for Fall 2009

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