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Data and image compression : tools and techniques / Gilbert Held and Thomas R. Marshall.

By: Held, Gilbert, 1943-.
Contributor(s): Marshall, Thomas (Thomas R.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chichester : Wiley, 1996Edition: 4th ed.Description: xiv, 435 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0471952478.Subject(s): Data compression (Computer science) | Image processing -- Digital techniquesDDC classification: 005.746
Contents:
Rationale and Utilization -- Data Codes and Compression-indicating Characters -- Character-oriented Compression Techniques -- Statistical Encoding -- Facsimile Compression -- Dictionary Based String Compression -- Image Compression -- Communications Software-linkage Considerations -- Compression-performing Hardware and Software Product Overview.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Now covering both data and image compression, this edition keeps pace with technology. It includes new coverage of fax and compression methods, as well as a range of compression-related tools to display, print, and convert images from one format to another. Reviews of the four most popular archive creation and compression performing programs are also included. Two disks include the coding in BASIC and C for many of the compression algorithms in the book.

Disks to accompany book available at desk.

Previous eds. published as: Data compression.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index.

Rationale and Utilization -- Data Codes and Compression-indicating Characters -- Character-oriented Compression Techniques -- Statistical Encoding -- Facsimile Compression -- Dictionary Based String Compression -- Image Compression -- Communications Software-linkage Considerations -- Compression-performing Hardware and Software Product Overview.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Rationale and Utilization
  • Data Codes and Compression-Indicating Characters
  • Character-Oriented Compression Techniques
  • Statistical Encoding
  • Fascimile Compression, Dictionary Based String Compression, Image Compression
  • Communications Software-Linkage Considerations
  • Compression-Performing Hardware and Software Product Overview
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Futher Reading
  • Index