Lecture 9

The Representation and Communication of Visual and Auditory Information:
Data Compression

April 14, 2004



Video and Audio Compression

Video and Audio Compression is an excellent reference from a course on Multimedia at Cardiff  University.

Contents

  1. Classifying Compression Algorithms
  2. Lossless Compression Algorithms (Repetitive Sequence Suppression)
  3. Lossless Compression Algorithms (Pattern Substitution)
  4. Lossless Compression Algorithms (Entropy Encoding)
  5. Source Coding Techniques
  6. JPEG Compression
  7. Video Compression
  8. H. 261 Compression
  9. MPEG Compression
  10. Audio Compression

Video and Audio Compression is another excellent reference from a course on Multimedia Systems at Simon Fraser University

Contents
  1. Lossless Compression Algorithms
  2. Image Compression -- JPEG
  3. Video Compression
  4. Audio Compression

Image Manipulation & Storage: a valuable tutorial from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Contents

Introduction
  1. Image Representation
  2. Image Visualization
Image Manipulation
  1. Geometric Transformations
  2. Image compositing
  3. Histogram manipulation
  4. Special effects
Image Storage
  1. Image Compression Techniques
  2. Raster Graphic Interchange Standards

References:

Compression in Multimedia:

Welcome to the JPEG Tutorial

The Viper JPEG Tutorial

A Discussion of Audio Compression

Multimedia Data

Image Manipulation & Storage: a valuable tutorial from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

JPEG Tutorial (by Ray Wolfgang of Purdue University)

ISU ACS Dept HTML Tutorial-JPEG Comparisons

Video Compression Techniques and Standards (by Gopal Lakhani of TexasTech)


 
 
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Last updated April 14, 2004