Research Groups
CMU Advanced Multimedia Processing Group, Image Communication Group, Heinrich Hertz Institut, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UIUC, University of British Columbia SPMG, USC SIPI, Waterloo University
Researchers
Abel, Jürgen, Adler, Mark, Battilana, Michael C., Bell, Timothy C., Chen, Tsuhan, Chrysafis, Christos, Cover, Thomas, Creusere, Charles, Delp, Edward J., Effros, Michelle
Test Images
CMU Computer Vision Images, Image Processing: the Lena Story, The Japanese Female Facial Expression Image Databa, The Lenna Story, The Visible Human, USC-SIPI Image Database
3D Graphics Compression Homepage
A directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web.
ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue
Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Arturo Campos: Compression Programming
Articles on various compression algorithms.
comp.compression Frequently Asked Questions
List from Usenet.
Complementary Positional Encoding
A lossless text compression algorithm. Description and C++ implementation.
Compression - Computing Reference
Explanation of compression and various compression schemes at eLook Computing Reference.
Compression via Arithmetic Coding in Java
Unrestricted open-source Java implementation of the PPM (prediction by partial matching) algorithm for text and data compression by Bob Carpenter. Builds with ant.
Data Compression
From PC Webopedia definition and links.
Data Compression Reference Center
Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, and a glossary.
Data-Compression.com
A website devoted to the principles and practice of data compression.
DataCompression.info
Directory of data compression sites. Allows user to rate the listed sites.
Dr Ross's Compression Crypt
LZRW* text compression algorithms. Links to other compression sites.
Groovyweb Compression Tutorials
Compression tutorials, links to other compression sites and compression downloads.
How Stuff Works: How File Compression Works
Detailed narrative fully describes how a file is actually deflated, or compressed to get rid of redundancy - and save space.
Lossless Image Compression with Switched Linear Pr
By Shinji Wakasugi. A simple method for lossless image compression using switched linear prediction. Report in PDF with code in C.
MacKiDo
Provides brief overview of shape compression, run-length encoding, and Lempel-Ziv.
Mitsuharu Arimura's Data Compression Pointers
Very large list of links, including books and lecture notes, benchmarkings, archives, image/graphic compression, fractal compression, wavelets, video and audio compression, and links to other link lists.
PKZIP Application Note
Describes the compression and decompression algorithms used by PKZIP.
Sparse Matrix Compression Schemes
Pseudocode for a spare matrix compression algorithm.
SPIHT
The Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees algorithm for image and video compression. Documentation and resources.
The Art of Lossless Data Compression
Results of tests performed to compare lossless compression of various data by all known good enough programs. Descriptions of test terms and files. Links to related programs, and pages.
The Canterbury Corpus
A set of benchmark results for various lossless compression methods. Includes test files and compression test results for many research compression methods.
The Data Compression Resource
Algorithms, links, comparisons, conferences, corpora and the home of the compressor ABC.
The LBE Data Compression Algorithm
A Huffman like algorithm that uses triangular matrices, rather than binary trees, for string substitution. Free source code available.
Tutorial on Image Compression
A tutorial on Image Compression, with step by step procedural examples and list of references, along with sample code.