Preface
This book aims to introduce you to data compression, a fascinating research area in computer science as well as in telecommunication and computer networks of electronic engineering.
The book sets out a sequence for you to study the subject efficiently. It lays a good foundation for your professional work or advanced studies in the future. Topics include various useful compression techniques for text, audio, image, video data and international standards. I hope to show you the significance of some compression ideas and technologies, and, more importantly, to stimulate and encourage you to design your own compression algorithms.
We shall, in this text,
• discuss important issues in data compression
• study a variety of data compression ...
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