Compression Pointers
Compression Pointers
Compression resources, conferences, and some research
groups and companies, are listed towards the end of this page.
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Jean-loup Gailly -- Mr. gzip,
PNG, CCR (1996-06-10)
MPEG Pointers and Resources
Robert M. Gray -- Signal
compression, VQ, image quality evaluation (1996-04-22)
Compression and
Classification Group -- ISL,EE,Stanford (1996-04-22)
Signal Processing
and the International Information Infrastructure -- Web sites (1996-04-22)
Valenta, Vladimir -- (1996-04-22)
Jordan, Frederic -- Parallel Image Compression (1996-04-12)
Electro-Optical Technologies, Inc. -- Consultant (1996-04-12)
quicktime.apple.com -- Quicktime site (1996-03-11)
IBM Hardware -- Compression chips (1996-03-11)
People
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Adler, Mark -- Info-ZIP; Zip, UnZip, gzip and zlib co-author; PNG group
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Baker, Matthew -- Region based video compression
Bamberger, Roberto H.
Bell, Daniel -- Region based image compression
Bell, Tim -- compression, computer science for children, and computers and music.
Bellard, Fabrice -- Author of LZEXE
Berghorn, Willy
Bhaskaran, Vasudev -- Image and Video compression
Bloom, Charles -- text compression, LZ methods, PPM methods...
Brito, Roger -- Arithmetic Coding, LZW, Text Compression
Budge, Scott E. -- medical/lossy image compression
Burnett, Ian -- Speech coding, prototype waveform techniques
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Chan, Christopher -- universal lossy source coding, adaptive VQ
Chao, Hong-yang -- Lightning strike image compressor
Chao, Stewart
Cherriman, Peter
Cheung, S.C. -- Scalable video compression algorithms (18th Feb 1996)
Christopoulos, Charilaos -- Image and Video compression
Chrysafis, Christos
Chung, Wilson C. -- R-D image and video coding, subband/wavelet, filter banks
Clark, Alan -- primary contact for V.42bis. Developed BTLZ variant of LZW
Cleary, John -- PPM, PPM*, K*
Cohn, Martin
Cormack, Gordon V. -- DMC
Cramer, Chris -- neural network image compression
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Danskin, John -- Protocol compression, document compression (9th Feb 1996)
Davis, Geoff -- wavelets, image compression, medical
Dilger, Andreas -- fractal block coding of video sequences
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Estes, Robert
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Fisher, Yuval -- Fractal Image Compression
Ford, Adrian -- Subjective and Objective Compression quality (5th Mar 1996)
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Jean-loup Gailly --
Mr. gzip, PNG, CCR (1996-06-10)
Gersho, Allen -- Vector Quantisation, Image Compression
Goertzel, Ben
Gooch, Mark -- High Performance Hardware Compression (7th Feb 1996)
Goyal, Vivek -- overcomplete representations, adaptive transform coding, VQ
Robert M. Gray -- Signal
compression, VQ, image quality evaluation
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Hafner, Ullrich -- WFA image compression
Hirschberg, Dan -- algorithm theory, compression
Holland, Scott
Horspool, R. Nigel -- text compression, ECG compression
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Inglis, Stuart -- image compression, OCR, lossy/lossless document compression
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Jones, Douglas -- splay-tree based compression and encryption
Jones, Simon -- Lossless compression, High Performance Hardware (7th Feb 1996)
Jordan, Frederic -- Parallel Image Compression (12th April 1996)
Jung, Robert K. -- ARJ
jutta
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Kominek, John -- Fractal and spline based compression
Kjelso, Morten -- Main memory compression, High performance hardware
Kuhn, Markus -- JBIG implementation
Kuo, C.-C. Jay
Kuru, Esa
Kyfonidis, Theodoros
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Lamparter, Bernd
Langdon, Glen
Larsson, Jesper -- algorithms and data structures, text compression
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Manber, Udi
Mangen, Jean-Michel -- image compression, wavelets, satellite
Moffat, Alistair -- text and index compression, coding methods, information retrieval, document databases
Montgomery, Christopher -- OggSquish, audio compression
Mueller, Urban Dominik -- XPK system
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Neal, Radford
Nevill-Manning, Craig
Nicholls, Jeremy
Noah, Matt -- speech, ATC, ACELP and IMBE
Nuri, Veyis -- wavelets, data compression, DSP (speech & image)
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Oleg -- Lots of code
Ortega, Antonio -- Video compression, Packet video, Adaptive quantization
Owen, Charles
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Provine,
Joseph -- Model based coding
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Robinson, John -- Binary Tree Predictive Coding
Roelofs, Greg -- Info-ZIP; primary UnZip author; PNG group
Rose, Kenneth
Russo, Roberto Maria -- Multiplatform Data Compression
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Schmidt, Bill
Shaw, Sandy C.
Sharifi, Kamran -- Video over ATM networks
Shende, Sunil M.
Silverstein, D. Amnon
Smoot, Steve -- MPEG
Storer, James A.
Streit, Jurgen -- Low bitrate coding
Strutz, Tilo -- Wavelet image compressor, demonstration execs
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Tate, Steve
Teahan, Bill -- PPM, PPM*, master of the Calgary Corpus
Thomson, Duncan -- ECG compression with ANNs
Tilton, James C.
Tomczyk, Marek
Turpin, Andrew -- Prefix Codes
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Vetterli, Martin -- wavelets, subband coding, video compression, computational complexity
Vitter, Jeff
Voukelatos, Stathis
de Vries, Nico -- AIP-NL, UltraCompressor II development
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Wareham, Paul -- Region-oriented video coding
Wegener, Al -- DSP, lossless audio compression and AC-2
Wei, Dong -- Wavelet compression
Williams, Ross
Witten, Ian -- PPM, mg, arithmetic coding
Wolff, Gerry
Woo, Woon-Tack -- stereo image and video compression (12th Feb 1996)
Wu, Xiaolin -- CALIC
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Zobel, Justin -- index compression, database compression
Conferences
Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, USA.
Resources
Where to get answers...
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) -- standards documents (CCITT)
comp.compression -- Frequently Asked Questions -- Come here 1st!
JPEG - Frequently Asked Questions
MPEG - Frequently Asked Questions
Standards - Frequenty Asked Questions
usenet newsgroup: comp.compression.research
Archive Compression Test -- Summary of all archivers
Fractal compression bibliography -- bibtex file
LZ/Complexity Seminars -- (in German)
Comparitive Compression Ratios -- Sofar...B&W, Gray Scale, Text Compression
VCN (Video, Compression, Networking)
Glossary
Digital Library -- search for compression
Reports/Ph.D. Theses
Paul Howards Ph.D. thesis
The Design and Analysis of Efficient Lossless Data Compression Systems
Source code
Arithmetic coding routines
        (from Moffat, Neal and Witten, Proc. DCC, April 1995)
CACM Arithmetic coding package
        (Witten, Neal and Cleary, CACM 30:520-541, June 1987)
JBIG Source code Includes a Q-coder
Markus Kuhn's JBIG implementation
k-arithmetic coder
Lossless Data Compression toolkit 1.1
Splay Trees Code -- by Douglas W. Jones
Block compression code -- Excellent text compressor
Test Files
Test Images -- CCITT images (pbm), Lena etc. (Sun raster)
Stockholm test images -- You have to buy a CDROM, thats all I know! :-(
         mail me at singlis@cs.waikato.ac.nz if you know anything about them.
Calgary Text Compression Corpus (Text Compression, Bell, Cleary and Witten, 1990)
Research Projects, Standards & Companies
Research/Free software Groups
Compression and
Classification Group -- ISL,EE,Stanford (22th April 1996)
Voice email -- Lossless audio compression (18th Feb 1996)
Electro-Optical Technologies, Inc. -- Consultant (12th April 1996)
quicktime.apple.com -- Quicktime site (11th Mar 1996)
IMAGE etc. -- Commercial image compression software (Fractals/Wavelets) (29th Feb 1996)
NCAR CCM Compression and Visualisation -- (18th Feb 1996)
SPIHT -- Wavelet Natural Image Compressor (12th Feb 1996)
Real-Time Lossless Compression Systems -- Loughborough University
Web site for Multirate Signal Processing -- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Info-ZIP -- free,
portable Zip and UnZip utilities
CEDIS -- NASA, Maryland, Image/data compression
CIC-3 Image Compression -- FBI Fingerprints
Signal Compression Lab at UCSB
University of
Washington compression lab -- VQ, Wavelets, Shlomo
Snippets
Signal Processing
and the International Information Infrastructure -- Web sites (22th April 1996)
Increasing Web bandwith -- comparing GIF, JPEG, Fractal compression
Fractal Links on Yahoo
Digital Speech Compression GSM 06.10 RPE-LTP -- DDJ
CREW -- Continuous tone loss(y/less) wavelet compression
CALIC -- Context-based adaptive lossless image compressor
Berkeley MPEG -- MPEG tools
MPEG Pointers and Resources
Wavelets
EPIC (Efficient Pyramid Image Coder) -- by Eero Simoncelli
Tucker, Michael -- FASTWAVE, audio/image compression
HARC -- Lossy Wavelet Compression technology
UC Berkeley Wavelet Group
Khoros Wavetlet and Compression Toolbox
The Wavelet Digest
Rice DSP Publications Archive -- Wavelets, Time Frequency/Scale
Fractals
Fractal Image Compression -- Software, Pointers, Conferences
Fractal Design Corporation
New Fractal Image Compression program
Companies
IBM Hardware -- Compression chips (11th Mar 1996)
Summus Wavelet Technology -- Wavelet image and video compressors (11th Mar 1996)
Fractal Image Compression -- Mitsubishi (18th Feb 1996)
Terran Interactive -- Video compression for the Mac (1st Feb 1996)
DV Mpeg -- Windows drivers (18th Feb 1996)
Crawford Compression Services -- MPEG post-production (18th Feb 1996)
Intelligent Compression Technologies (18th Feb 1996)
Pegasus Imaging -- Compression software/dev. kits (12th Feb 1996)
Aladdin Systems -- StuffIt compression products
Stac Electronics
DCP Research -- Hardware solutions
Aware Inc. -- Specialised compression company
IVS - INRIA Videoconferencing System
Telvox Teleinformatica -- Multiplatform Data Compressor
Compression Technologies,
Inc -- Canada
Optivision -- MPEG
PKWARE -- Makers of PKZIP
Multimedia Imaging Services
Audio compression
Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen
Shorten
digital speech compression
Audio compression references
SpeakFreely - compression
SpeakFreely - Contents