ABSTRACT

An effective blend of carefully explained theory and practical applications, this text imparts the fundamentals of both information theory and data compression. Although the two topics are related, this unique text allows either topic to be presented independently, and it was specifically designed so that the data compression section requires no pr

chapter 1|24 pages

Elementary Probability

chapter 2|22 pages

Information and Entropy

chapter 3|24 pages

Channels and Channel Capacity

chapter 4|48 pages

Coding Theory

chapter 6|40 pages

Arithmetic Coding

chapter 7|24 pages

Higher-order Modeling

chapter 8|24 pages

Adaptive Methods

chapter 9|16 pages

Dictionary Methods

chapter 10|58 pages

Transform Methods and Image Compression