Data Compression Links

General

• Data Compression Conference
• comp.compression FAQ
• Archive Comparison Test
• Calgary corpus compression challenge,
• Data Compression Info

Lossless compression

• comprehensive treatment in 1986
• Context tree weighting project (see DCC'96, pp. 132-139)
• zlib home page
• gzip file format specs
• szip
• M software
• range coding (AC variant) [JBIG2]

Image (lossy) compression

• JPEG:
  • Independent JPEG Group (IJG)
  • JPEG.org
  • JPEG-LS
• MPEG:
  • starting pts
• Wavelets:
  • Introduction to Wavelets
• set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT)

Other useful links

• File format for internet FAX (TIFF)
• GIF89a specification