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

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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)

O

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