An MPEG FAQ that is either from Frank Gadegast or KeyJ Phade. Worth a look, answers a lot of questions.

http://www.gadegast.de/frank/mpegfaq/index.html

This article from EE Times talks about the changes made to the Advanced Audio Coding portion of the standard during the change from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4.

http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20011218S0048

No details, but it appears to be a collection of files designed to represent a slightly wider range of modern applications.

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tim/corpus/ftp/cantrbry.tar.gz

Ross Arnold and Tim Bell, “A Corpus for the Evaluation of Lossless Compression Algorithms”, Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1997.

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tim/corpus/report.ps.gz

Images commonly used in compression tests are stored here in Sun raster format. At this time I believe that all you will find here are gray scale images.

ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/graphics/misc/test-images/

What appears to be a discussion of Lossless compression algorithms, including Huffman coding, Arithmetic Coding, LZW, LZSS, and LZH.

http://www.ztt.fh-worms.de/de/sem/ws95_96/kompressionsalgorithmen/node3.html#SECTION000300
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A study of lossy compression algorithms, including discussion of JPEG, MPEG, and the DCT.

http://www.ztt.fh-worms.de/de/sem/ws95_96/kompressionsalgorithmen/node30.html#SECTION00040
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A big survey paper of data compression techniques by Joachim Schwarz und Guido Sörmann. German language.

http://www.ztt.fh-worms.de/de/sem/ws95_96/kompressionsalgorithmen/Kompressionsalgorithmen.
html

An article on JPEG 2000 in WebReview. A pretty good description of what’s going to be in the standard.

http://www.webreview.com/1999/08_13/designers/08_13_99_3.shtml

by David A. Clunie. A preliminary implementation of JPEG-LS.

http://www.dclunie.com/jpegls.html

A set of data compression links maintained by Haruhiko Okumura. Many of the links here point to Japanese language sites. Even if you cannot read Japanese, you may still profit from the profusion of links on this page. Just be sure your browser is set to render Shift-JIS.

http://www.matsusaka-u.ac.jp/~okumura/compression.html

I need a translation of this page from any interested volunteer.

http://www.matsusaka-u.ac.jp/~okumura/compression/

I need a translation of this page from any Japanese speaking volunteers.

http://www.matsusaka-u.ac.jp/~okumura/compression/cmaga.html

A Japanese language site that is somehow related to zlib.

http://www.matsusaka-u.ac.jp/~okumura/compression/zlib.html

This source code appears to be Samuel Smith’s original Unzip code. This eventually gave birth to the Info-ZIP project and its UnZip program. Sam was the pioneer, and I believe he did most or all of it on his own.

http://pascal.sources.ru/archives/ccunzip.htm

One of the earliest patents regarding fractal compression. Issued 10 July 1990, assigned to Iterated Systems.

A fundamental patent for fractal image compression assigned to Iterated Systems. This patent was issued 12 November 1991.

A fractal compression patent held by Iterated Systems, Inc. This appears to be a very fundamental patent issued 13 September 1994.

An arithmetic coding patent which appears to be currently assigned to Samsung.

Roalt created an ANSI C H.263 encoder, posted it here along with a tiny bit of documentation.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~roalt/h263.html

This page reflects the necessity of developping collaborations (and intensify those that already exist) between the nine research groups from six different european countries, with the ultimate common goal of applying wavelet-based methods to complex industrial problems.

http://www.ian.pv.cnr.it/~wavelet/

A technical report giving an overview of various video streaming formats used in today’s Internt. Includes low-level details such as transport formats, and high-level info such as providers of application servers.

http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/jane-hunter/video-streaming.html

EETimes reports on Microsoft’s Corona encoder - a video encoder that is touted as being superior to MPEG-2. The movie business is in a quandry, faced with the technical demands needed to put HD movies on disk. Using conventional compression, they would need to convert to costly blue-laser driven systems. Microsoft offers them a way to put more data on existing disks with just firmware upgrades.

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011212S0060

Cisco makes a box you can attach to their routers. The box performs lossless data compression.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/core/7202/portadpt/service/sa_comp/

Hi/fn makes lossless compression hardware and software. They have a bunch of chips that implement LZS and MPCC compression, plus a library that does the same thing. I have been led to believe that these algorithms are partially or completely protected by patents.

http://www.hifn.com/products/Compression.html

SONARC is an old DOS audio compression program that was apparently used in Ultima, a well known game.

http://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/sonarc/

One page poster for Frans M.J. Willems, Yuri M. Shtarkov, and Tjalling J. Tjalkens, “The Context Tree Weighting Method: Basic Properties,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, May 1995. (Postscript)

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/willems95context.html

by Frans M.J. Willems, Yuri M. Shtarkov, and Tjalling J. Tjalkens, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Sept. 1996. A postscript version of this overview paper.

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/willems94context.html

Lots of pointers here. Relevant to compression because of the wealth of pointers to various formats used in medical imaging, such as JPEG-LS and Lossless JPEG.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/medical-image-faq/part7/

Atlanta Signal Processor, Inc., is nice enough to host his paper on their site. It gives a brief overview of the MELP Vocoder algorithm.

http://www.aspi.com/tech/specs/pdfs/melp.pdf