This book offers readers a succinct and reader-friendly foundation to the most important topics in the field of data compression. Complete and clear, it is the perfect reference for advanced undergraduates in computer science and requires a minimum of mathematics.

Compression is an option naturally selected when faced with problems of high costs or restricted space. This book offers readers a succinct and reader-friendly foundation to the most important topics in the field of data compression.

Divided into two parts, Part I presents the basic approaches to data compression and describes a few popular techniques and methods that are commonly used to compress data. The reader discovers essential concepts, such as variable-length and prefix codes, statistical distribution and run-length codes. Part II concentrates on advanced techniques, such as arithmetic coding, orthogonal transforms, subband transforms and Burrows-Wheeler transform.

Complete and clear, this book will be the perfect reference for advanced undergraduates in computer science and requires a minimum of mathematics. An author-maintained website provides readers with errata and auxiliary material.

The author is experienced and has authored the very successful Data Compression: The Complete Guide, Fourth Edition Clear, reader-friendly style The required level of mathematics is minimal Specifically written for undergraduates, to cover foundations of Data Compression An author-maintained website, containing errata and auxiliary material complements the book Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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David Salomon is retired professor emeritus of computer science from California State University, Northridge. He is author of numerous articles and books, including Data Compression, Third Edition, Guide to Data Compression Methods, and Data Privacy and Security.

Inhalt
Basic Concepts.- Approaches to Compression.- Huffman Coding.- Dictionary Methods.- Advanced Techniques.- Arithmetic Coding.- Image Compression.- Audio Compression.- Other Methods.