Archive-name: compression-faq/part2
Last-modified: Sep 5th, 1999

This file is part 2 of a set of Frequently Asked Questions for the
groups comp.compression and comp.compression.research.

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Contents
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Part 2: (Long) introductions to data compression techniques

[70] Introduction to data compression (long)
       Huffman and Related Compression Techniques
       Arithmetic Coding
       Substitutional Compressors
          The LZ78 family of compressors
          The LZ77 family of compressors

[71] Introduction to MPEG (long)
       What is MPEG?
       Does it have anything to do with JPEG?
       Then what's JBIG and MHEG?
       What has MPEG accomplished?
       So how does MPEG I work?
       What about the audio compression?
       So how much does it compress?
       What's phase II?
       When will all this be finished?
       How do I join MPEG?
       How do I get the documents, like the MPEG I draft?

[72] What is wavelet theory?
[73] What is the theoretical compression limit?
[74] Introduction to JBIG
[75] Introduction to JPEG
[76] What is Vector Quantization?
[77] Introduction to Fractal compression
[78] The Burrows-Wheeler block sorting algorithm (long)

Part 3: (Long) list of image compression hardware

[85] Image compression hardware
[99] Acknowledgments


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Section Contents

• News Headers
• [70] Introduction to data compression (long)
• [71] Introduction to MPEG (long)
• [72] What is wavelet theory?
• [73] What is the theoretical compression limit?
• [74] Introduction to JBIG
• [75] Introduction to JPEG
• [76] What is Vector Quantization?
• [77] Introduction to Fractal compression (long)
• [78] The Burrows-Wheeler block sorting algorithm (long)

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