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.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/079237519X/theinternetdatac

A paper describing a way to brute-force ones way through PKZip’s encryption - requires a few hundred bytes of known plaintext.

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/122586.html

Bob X. Cringely says that a new coding technique would give us a 10X bandwidth improvement on cable lines.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020131.html

Florin Ghido has developed a BWT archiver, here for the taking. I believe this is free.

http://ghido.shelter.ro/Archive/QLFC.php

A presentation by Michael J. Gormish & Michael W. Marcellin, which was given at the DCC in 2000. Lots of information and figures, but as always, the slides without the talk leaves one wanting more.

http://www.rii.ricoh.com/~gormish/pdf/dcc2000_jpeg2000_joint_charts.pdf

A paper by Michael W. Marcellin, Michael J. Gormish, Ali Bilgin, Martin P. Boliek that was published in the 2000 Proceedings of the DCC. Good information of only moderate complexity in an academic format.

http://www.rii.ricoh.com/~gormish/pdf/dcc2000_jpeg2000_note.pdf

A paper by Michael J. Gormish from Ricoh in Silicon Valley. History, rationale, results, and procedures.

http://www.rii.ricoh.com/~gormish/pdf/mwscs99_j2k_worthwait.pdf

Yet another Zip/Archiving program tailored to the Win32 environment. Drag and Drop, XP-style icons, etc.

http://www.softartstudio.com/archives/adaron_zip_portal.htm

This Wikipedia entry describes the H.263 video compression standard. A short entry but it has a few valuable outside links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.263

This is the home page for the IETF group that reviews RTP packetization standards. Links on this page for all the drafts you can imagine for sending video and audio over RTP streams.

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/avt-charter.html

The IETF standard for delivering H.263 in RTP packet streams.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2190.txt

The second generation fo H.263 is working on supplanting the original. Naturally, we need a standard for sending H.263v2 packets over RTP streams.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2429.txt

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
this link to purchase the book through Amazon.com. Your purchase will help support this web site.

http://www.video-demystified.com/

The open source project to create an H.263 codec. No output yet!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openh263-s/

Links to the various parts of the H.263 standard on the ITU page. Get out your credit card if you want a copy - the ITU doesn’t give things away!

http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=folders&lang=e&parent=T-REC-H.263

The Wikipedia entry for Information Theory. The basic “Claude Shannon invented all this stuff” overview.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

The Wikipedia talks about LPC. A very short definition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictive_coding

The Wikipedia entry for Gzip. Very short with just a couple of links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip

The Wikipedia article on speech coding. A very few good definitions, and a very few good links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_coding

The Wikipedia entry for Algorithmic Information Theory. Explains the field of study that includes such interesting things as Kolmogorov complexity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory

The Wikipedia entry for Huffman Coding. A fairly terse definition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding

The Wikipedia entry for Arithmetic coding. Too short for anything other than a thumbnail sketch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding

The Wikipedia entry for the topic of Data Compression. Many links to other Wikipedia entries on this page, including MP3, JPEG, Fractal compression, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression

The Wikipedia entry for RLE. Given the simple nature of RLE, this provides an adequate explanation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_length_encoding

The Wikipedia entry for LZW compression. Good overview with plenty of links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZW

The Wikipedia entry for GIF. A reasonable amount of background and overview information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif

The Wikipedia entry for PNG. Good overview with many relevant links to other entries in the Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Png

The Wikipedia entry for MNG. Fairly terse..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNG

This Wikipedia entry describes the deflate compression algorithm. Very terse, could use an update from a DCL reader!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE

This Wikipedia entry describes the MP3 audio format. A good overview with many helpful links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3