by Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovacevic. This book is a hefty academic tome, described on this web page as: a comprehensive and unified presentation of discrete and continuous wavelets, filter banks and subband coding, as well as multiresolution signal processing, is given. It is intended for practitioners and researchers in the fields of signal processing and telecommunications, as well as applied mathematics and computer vision..

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by David S. Taubman, Michael W. Marcellin. This rather pricey book is listed as a reference for engineers and researchers who want to understand the JPEG2000 standard. Taubman is the author of the Kakadu tools, which are included on the CD (licensing terms unknown.) Use the link on this web page to buy the book - you’ll help keep this site on line.

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This book promises to tell you everything you need to know about video, which includes pertinent compression issues: H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and other video formats. Please use
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By Rafail Krichevsky, Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk University, Russia. This volume constitutes a comprehensive self-contained course on source encoding.

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Reader Yuriy R. says: A concise and rigorous course on universal source coding and universal information retrieval. Only suitable for math. oriented readers, graduate students, and researchers in these fields. Engineers expecting to find source-code of data compression algorithms shall look elsewhere.

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Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9048-2 October 1989, 208 pp. Part of the Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science.

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Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9181-0 November 1991, 760 pp.

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Source and Channel Coding: An Algorithmic Approach provides in-depth coverage of coded communication with the first unified treatment of trellis coding and modern bandwidth-efficient coding

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by Vasudev Bhaskaran, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9952-8, 472 pp., $97.50. This book describes the various standards in use today, including MPEG, JPEG, H.261, and so on.

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Sample pages on line from the book Discrete Cosine Transform: Algorithms, Advantages, Applications by Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao, P. Yip. The first 6 pages of the book are excerpted here, giving a complete history of the DCT.

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Web page for a new book, Video Codec Design, to be published by Wiley in March 2002. Video Codec Design takes a design-based approach to image and video compression. The book covers the JPEG, JPEG2K, MPEG1/2/4 and H.261/3/L standards and gives detailed guidance on designing image and video compression applications.

DataCompression.info reader Eduardo M. said this was very easy to read and understand, but he would have liked some code examples.

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by Robert B. Ash. This book gets a couple of five star ratings on Amazon.com. If you’re the type to pay close attention to your budget, you’ll like the fact that it sells for under $10!

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by Ali N. Akansu, Richard A. Haddad. This book covers the areas you need to know in order to understand much of modern singal compression techniques. The second edition was issued in January, 2001.

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by Majid Rabbani and Paul W. Jones. This book shows up in at least one bibiblography, I would appreciate reviews from a reader.

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by Allen Gersho and Robert M. Gray. This book shows up in at least one bibiblography, I would appreciate reviews from a reader.

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The book that accompanies the course of the same name. Russian-language submitter reports that the book has info on RLE, LZW, CCITT Group 3, Jpeg, Wavelet, and Fractal compression.

http://graphics.cs.msu.su/library/our_publications/fractal/index.htm

Subtitled Basics, Standards and Wavelet-Based Algorithms for Image and Video Coding. This German-language textbook contains full source code (ANSI-C) of a wavelet-based image coder.

http://www-nt.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/~ts/Buch/book.html

This bibliography is the best attempt at a complete record of all the written works of Claude Shannon, father of Information Theory.

http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/shannonbib.html

According to the publisher, this contains all of Shannon’s published works, plus papers that were previously unpublished for various reasons, including wartime secrecy.

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by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas. This is an introductory text on Info Theory, covering all the basics, which of course includes coding and data compression.

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by Lawrence R. Rabiner, Ronald W. Schafer. A basic overview of how to use DSP to deal with speech.

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by Manfred R. Schroeder. How about a customer review of this book?

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ISBN: 0124580106, April 1997, US Price: $55.95. The publisher says: Fractal Imaging presents the logic, technology, and various uses of fractal imaging by analyzing a complete, usable fractal image representation system. The book appears to be designed to help apply fractal imaging.

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Home page for the book: Introduction to
Information Theory and Data Compression
Darrel Hankerson, Greg A. Harris, and Peter D. Johnson Jr.

http://www.dms.auburn.edu/compression/index.html

by Khalid Sayood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 2000 600 pages, $69.95, ISBN 1-55860-558-4. This is a college level introductory text that covers a very wide range of data compression topics.

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A sample chapter from The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing, which just happens to be on Data Compression. You can download this entire book for free from the web site.

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by Hankersson et. al. Hardcover - 330 pages (November 1997) CRC Press; ISBN: 0849339855. A textbook for upper-level or graduate course on compression. Please use the link on this page to purchase this book, it will help support the Data Compression Library.

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