Home page for the members of the JBIG committee, as well as a place for links and information about the Bi-Level Image coding standard.

http://www.jbig.org/jbig/index.html

Accusoft makes a variety of imaging products, including a nice commercial imaging library.

http://accusoft.com/home.asp

This web site offers you random numbers generated using quantum process, which sounds like the gold standard to me.

http://www.randomnumbers.info/index.jsp

Microsoft thinks Windows Media Video can be a big part of the HD scene. This web page is dedicated to that proposition.

http://www.wmvhd.com/

The Center for Next Generation Video is working on a number of research projects dealing with advanced video coding.

http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/CNGV/

It appears that the technology promised by Adam Clark has found a buyer. MWC is paying $11 million for the IP that is reputed to be able to create a full-screen video experience over normal voice lines.

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20031001/pdf/3j7tqwvlr3y77.pdf

Talleo advertises themselves as an international telecommunications consulting firm that provides Network Engineering, WAN optimization, and data compression. They are a reseller of Peribit’s products.

http://www.talleo.com/

This group says that they will develop, demonstrate and disseminate tools for the JPEG 2000 digital imaging standard. At this time that seems to include a couple of demonstration programs, some text and web pages, test images, and a link to a Perl package.

http://public.migrator2000.org/main.xalter

Kevin Short at the University of New Hampshire has created a company called Chaoticom that is raising money to develop his new idea called Chaotic Compression Technology. Until we see some papers, algorithms, or products this is going to have to be categorized as an Incredible Claim.

http://www.ceps.unh.edu/focus/focus701.pdf

Expand makes a series of Network Accelerators. These are black boxes that perform lossless compression on packets being shipped across our WAN. Lots of competition in this area, so companies like Expand depend on innovative and proprietary techniques to give them an edge.

http://www.expand.com/

Jürgen Abel is now tracking conferences which will be covering data compression topics. This listing includes the conference, dates, web page, and submission deadline. You are encouraged to keep Jürgen updated with any new information.

http://www.data-compression.info/Conferences/

Nellymoser is the leading provider of proprietary speech and audio software technology and solutions in the areas of compression, modification, synchronization and conversion. Our products improve speech and audio quality and efficiency in bandwidth-constrained environments while creating more immersive, interactive environments for your applications and services.

http://www.nellymoser.com/

Pegasus Web Services has a new compression algorithm that they say can put 1.2GB on a floppy disk! No demo software yet, but if you’re interested in licensing the technology they are ready to talk.

http://www.fly-pegasus.com/pr_invent.htm

Forgent explains their position with respect to the infamous ‘672 patent.

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=FORG&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=3
14044

One of the home pages of the Ogg Vorbis project, this is a good place to start if you’re looking for downloads, documentation, or Ogg Vorbis software.

http://www.vorbis.com/

RealNetworks has announced that they are going to be Open Sourcing a significant portion of their server products. Outlook from the Open Source community is guardedly optimistic.

http://www.realnetworks.com/solutions/leadership/helix.html

Makers of high-quality, commercial-grade data compression, encryption and internet components for Windows developers.

http://www.xceedsoft.com

These folks make a box that transparently compresses network traffic. Designed to work on any sort of WAN interface, including T1, E1, ATM, etc. The web site includes an ROI calcuator that will convince you this box will pay for itself!

http://www.peribit.com/

This company labels itself as “The world leader in end-to-end MPEG-4 Solutions.” Looks like they sell a suite of authoring and encoding tools, and perhaps some server software. Follow the link to “About MPEG-4″ and you’ll get a little bit of text plus some more links.

http://www.ivast.com/

This PDF file provides a two page overview of the Nancy codec and the company that’s behind it, NOA, Inc.

http://datacompression.info/Miscellaneous/LightVideoCodecNancyME.pdf

CNN reports on a research team at Cal Tech that has created a new algorithm for compressing 3D object representations. If you can figure out how it works from this article, send me an email!

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/05/24/3d.graphics.idg/index.html

CNet reports that On2 Technologies is using a feature film to demo their new compression technology. You can see “To Kill a Lawyer” over the Internet at several speeds ranging from 400 KBps up to 1MBps. The proprietary algorithm is called VP5.

http://news.com.com/2110-1023-896435.html

This company sells an IP core that performs lossless data compression. Not sure what algorithm they are using, it is described as “GEMAC’s data compression algorithm.” This algorithm was first published at DCC ‘95, and is described as a hybrid of ZL1 and ZL2, created with the goal of maximizing compression rate.

http://www.gemac-chemnitz.de/

JPEG-LS is the new lossless/near-lossless compression standard for continuous-tone images developed by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (final draft international standard FDIS14495-1 as of Novembr 1998). The standard is based on the LOCO-I algorithm (LOw COmplexity LOssless COmpression for Images) developed at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Update: The HP site has just added a JPEG-LS plugin for Photoshop, in addition to the HP implementation that has been there for some time.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/loco/

A growing concern for video researchers and broadcasters alike, is the assurance and maintenance of an acceptable service quality level for the distribution of video programming. The Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) was created to deal with video quality issues, specifically, objective methods for predicting video image quality.

http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/vqeg/

These guys use compression to increase messaging throughput on your network. Looks like they work with Microsoft Exchange, as well as having a general purpose product for ISPs.

http://www.quikcat.com/

I guess this is where you go to register or get support for your copy of RAR or WinRAR.

http://www.rarreg.com/

Privately held Pulsent is promising a new video compression technique that can stream video across the net with only half the bandwidth of MPEG2. They’ve not only created a new algorithm but are also developing the chips to support it.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020325/tc_cn/show_time_for_new_video_c
ompression&cid=70

CNET reports the existence of a bug in zlib that leaves room for security exploits. The bug is one that occurs when a program attempts to free allocated memory twice, which leaves the internals of the library in an unpredictable state.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-857265.html

An article in EE Times that talks about the CEO of the company producing the Nancy video codec. Nancy has significantly lower MIPS requirements than MPEG-4, which has gotten it in the door of Japan’s 2.5G cell phone manufactures.

http://www.eet.com/issue/tp/OEG20020306S0045