A Concise Introduction to Data Compression

Thisclearlywrittenbookoffersreadersasuccinctfoundationtothemostimportanttopicsinthefieldofdatacompression.PartIpresentsthebasicapproachestodatacompressionanddescribesafewpopulartechniquesandmethodsthatarecommonlyusedtocompressdata.Thereaderwilldiscoveressentialconcepts.PartIIconcentratesonadvancedtechniques，suchasarithmeticcoding，orthogonaltransforms，subbandtransformsandBurrows-Wheelertransform.Thisbookistheperfectreferenceforadvancedundergraduatesincomputerscienceandrequiresaminimumofmathematics.Anauthor-maintainedwebsiteprovideserrataandauxiliarymaterial.