This page contains a paper that describes a program that attempts to improve on Huffman compression by manipulation of the data stream.

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A not very serious trashing of fractal compression.

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The Independent JPEG Group is a source of free JPEG software. It is in wide use. Oddly enough, the groups home page doesn’t have anything interesting on it except a link to an ftp site, and a link to a couple of FAQs.

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by Xiaolin Wu, University of Western Ontario. A paper on the CALIC algorithm, first presented at DCC 96. This file is in PS format.

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by Xiaolin Wu, University of Western Ontario. A paper on high performance lossless image compression. I’m not sure if this paper was a predecessor to CALIC/JPEG-LS or not.

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by Paul Glor Howard, Brown University, 1993. This thesis looks at statistical methods for performing data compression.

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A collenction of links to graphics file format information.

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The home page of the Encyclopaedia of Graphics File Formats.

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Software for H.263, JPEG-LS, and JBIG-2. Follow the links to Software. Many publications as well.

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An article I wrote that describes how to take advantage of the zip classes included in Java’s 1.1 JDK. This includes some very simple programs that can create, view, and extract from zip files.

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This article describes a relatively painless way to construct suffix trees. Once you have a suffix tree constructed, it is extremely easy to search for the longest match of a given string. This makes the suffix tree a nice data structure to use in macro replacement forms of data compression.

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AudioCatalyst is a commercial program that creates and playsback MP3 files. The recorder can rip tracks from music CDs and convert them to MP3 files in many different formats. A trial edition of the product is available at this web site.

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by Balkenhol, Kurtz, and Shtarkov. A paper that was published at DCC 1999. Some thoughts about BWT and the context tree model, alphabet modification, modification of MTF, and Grouping of symbols.
NOTE:The file type would indicate that this is a compressed file, but it actually appears to be unencoded PS format.

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by Bernhard Balkenhol, Stefan Kurtz, 1998. Yet another analysis of the algorithm. Any exciting conclusions? Click the rate link and you can tell me.

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A description of the ARJ file format.

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A description of the CAB file format. This doc page includes some source.

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Xing makes consumer products that support various forms of digital audio. Xing Audio Catalyst is a popular program that supports both creation and playback of MP3 audio.

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