The Data Compression Book (Paperback)

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The Data Compression Book Second Edition The Data Compression Book is the most authoritative guide to data compression techniques available. This second edition has been updated to include fractal compression techniques and all the latest developments in the compression field. All the code in the previous edition has been updated to run with today's compilers and has been tested on multiple platforms to ensure flawless performance. You'll learn to write C programs for nearly any environment as you explore different compression methods. Nelson and Gailly discuss the theory behind each method and apply the techniques involved to shrink data down to a minimum. Each technique is illustrated with a complete, functional C program that not only demonstrates how data compression works, but it also can be incorporated into your own data compression programs. You'll also get detailed benchmarks demonstrating the speed and compression ability of each technique. The code in this book has been tested on a variety of platforms and compilers including Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 with MS–DOS 5.0 and 6.22; Borland C++ 4.0 and 4.5 with MS–DOS 5.0 and 6.22; Symantec C++ 6.0 and 7.0 with MS–DOS 5.0 & 6.22; Interactive Unix System 3.2 with the portable C compiler; Solaris 2.4 with the SunSoft compiler; and Linux 1.1 with the Gnu C Compiler. Topics Include:

• The Shannon–Fano and Huffman coding techniques
• Adaptive Huffman coding techniques
• Lossy compression
• The JPEG compression algorithm
• Fractal compression techniques
• Arithmetic coding
• Dictionary compression methods

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The Data Compression Book Second Edition The Data Compression Book is the most authoritative guide to data compression techniques available. This second edition has been updated to include fractal compression techniques and all the latest developments in the compression field. All the code in the previous edition has been updated to run with today's compilers and has been tested on multiple platforms to ensure flawless performance. You'll learn to write C programs for nearly any environment as you explore different compression methods. Nelson and Gailly discuss the theory behind each method and apply the techniques involved to shrink data down to a minimum. Each technique is illustrated with a complete, functional C program that not only demonstrates how data compression works, but it also can be incorporated into your own data compression programs. You'll also get detailed benchmarks demonstrating the speed and compression ability of each technique. The code in this book has been tested on a variety of platforms and compilers including Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 with MS–DOS 5.0 and 6.22; Borland C++ 4.0 and 4.5 with MS–DOS 5.0 and 6.22; Symantec C++ 6.0 and 7.0 with MS–DOS 5.0 & 6.22; Interactive Unix System 3.2 with the portable C compiler; Solaris 2.4 with the SunSoft compiler; and Linux 1.1 with the Gnu C Compiler. Topics Include:

• The Shannon–Fano and Huffman coding techniques
• Adaptive Huffman coding techniques
• Lossy compression
• The JPEG compression algorithm
• Fractal compression techniques
• Arithmetic coding
• Dictionary compression methods

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The primary purpose of this book is to explain various data-compression techniques using the C programming language. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars The best book for programmers needing algorithms not theory., 2 Sep 1999 By A Customer This book did a better job than any other of teaching me sliding window dictionary encoding and adaptive huffman encoding. It got right to the point in an easy to understand fashon. There was no thick cloud of theory masking the information I needed. Read this book before you read others on the subject of data compression. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful for the application-oriented, 24 Oct 1998 By A Customer If your primary interest is in writing compression algorithms, this is the book you want. It does a fine job of explaining several different techniques, and shows you how to implement them. It's light on the theory side, so if you're more interesting in the "why" than the "what", you may want to choose a different book. One exception to this is the explanation of arithmetic coding and statistical methods, which can actually be read and understood in one pass. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 3.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable coverage, but poor quality C code., 15 Nov 2000 By A Customer The topics covered by the book are good. The explanations are simple, yet (usually) adequate to get straight in there and start experimenting. It doesn't deal with efficient ways to code, but rather tries to keep things simple for clarity. A reasonable choice, but it would be nice to have hints at ways of optimising the code. However the C code is just too old. Too much time is spent dealing with non-ANSI compilers, so much so that the resulting code isn't really portable (eg it assumes long is 32-bits) and it's full of ifdefs. This K&R stuff just wants throwing out. It'd make the code easier to read and hence understand. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 5 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 1.0 out of 5 stars Misleading ... The data compression topics are covered in the most light-handed way possible. The promos for the book advertise that the JPEG compression standard is "discussed", and... Read more Published on 25 May 1999 4.0 out of 5 stars Basic Data compression techniques explained This books is for C programmers, interested in understanding Data compression. Both Lossless and Lossy is covered. Easy to read, and each compression is implemented in C. Read more Published on 8 May 1998 Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 5 customer reviews...

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