Application of the BSP Model in Fractal Image Compression

A bibliography containing links to numerous papers on video coding, with links to authors as well. This is a chapter from the massive Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography.

http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/compute83.html

Fractal Image Compression

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Fractals, Tutorials, Reference, Presentations

An entry from some sort of online encyclopedia giving a quick overview of Fractal Compression.

http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/book/ch09_09.htm

Compression Research

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Links, Image Compression

This page contains information and links which are small a sampling of compression research that has been performed using the Lena image.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/nsipg/nsi.html

Iterated function systems and compression

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Fractals, Tutorials, Reference, Presentations

An entry from a web page entitled “Fractal Questions and Answers”.

http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/miscellaneous/faq/fractal/faq-doc-11.html

On Fractal Compression

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Fractals, Tutorials, Reference, Presentations

An overview of Fractal Compression.

http://www.ici.ro/ici/revista/sic99_4/art08.html

Advanced Fractals

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Fractals, Tutorials, Reference, Presentations

A Web-based tutorial on Fractals, which includes a description of fractal image compression.

http://library.thinkquest.org/12740/msie4/advanced/index.html

Multimedia Paper Summaries

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Papers/Documentation, Coding, Data Compression

A set of links to paper summaries, including a batch on Coding, Compression, and Media Formats.

http://swig.stanford.edu/pub/summaries/multimedia/

ZipArchive - A library for C++ programmers

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Non-Commercial Libraries, Zip

This library adds zip compression and decompression functionality to your program, allowing you to create and modify ZIP files in a compatible way with WinZip, PKZIP and other popular archivers. Its easy and practical interface makes the library suitable for the beginners as well as for the advanced users. The library is published under the […]

http://www.artpol-software.com/index_zip.html

Project: streamTranscoder

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, Audio

A rather terse description on SourceForge: Stream transcoder will be designed for use in relaying and converting streaming audio between various formats. MP3 and Vorbis will be supported. In Beta 4 as of September, 2002.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/transcoder/

XCode Video Networking Processor

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Hardware, Video

ViXS Systems from Toronto, Ontario has announced the
XCode chip, which they say will adjust MPEG formats, bit rates, and
resolutions on the fly as data moves through an IP network. At a
minimum, this means the part can format MPEG1 to MPEG2 to MPEG4, and change resolutions from QCIF to standard to high definition and back again, […]

http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/1469111

The VCDIFF Generic Differencing and Compression Data Format

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Posted in September 29th, 2002

Published in Standards, Esoterica/Miscellany

A format that can be used to send the differences between documents with some efficiency. This is part of a proposed extension to the HTTP standard.

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3284.txt

DSPWorx Cheetah - DSW2000S Chip

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Hardware, JPEG-2000, JPEG

This System-on-chip provides you with all the building blocks you need to perform several different kinds of compression and decompression, including MPEG, JPEG, and JPEG2000.

http://www.dspworx.com/cheetah.htm

Text compression for embedded controllers

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Source Code, Huffman Coding

Some simple BASIC routines to compress data without extravagant data or code space. The author seems to indicate this isn’t Huffman coding, but doesn’t say what it is.

http://www.sxlist.com/techref/method/compress/embedded.htm

Letter frequency in normal English text

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Esoterica/Miscellany, Tutorials, Reference, Presentations

No documentation or hint of how this page was created, but it purports to give you some stats on the frequency of characters in English text.

http://www.sxlist.com/techref/method/compress/etxtfreq.htm

A Non Uniform Segmentation Optimal Hybrid Fractal/dct Image Compression Algorithm

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Papers/Documentation, Fractals, JPEG

by Gerry Melnikov, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos. In this paper a hybrid fractal and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coder is developed.

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/melnikov98non.html

Algorithm for Fast Fractal Image Compression

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Papers/Documentation, Fractals

Fractal image compression is a promising new technology that may successfully provide a codec for PC-to-PC video communications. Unfortunately, the large amount of computation needed for the compression stage is a major obstacle that needs to be overcome. This paper introduces the Fast Fractal Image Compression algorithm, a new approach to breaking the “speed problem” […]

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/kominek95algorithm.html

HTML Page Guardian

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Commercial Programs, Internet

This product is used to protect the source of your HTML pages, which it does using “three layers of encryption.” I don’t know how that works, but they do advertise that LZW compression is an optional part of the process, so they earn a spot in DataCompression.info.

http://www.minihttpserver.net/htmlg/index.php

HOWTO: MPEG Compression of 2-D Data Files

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Tutorials, Reference, Presentations

Roman Zaritski explains the arduous processes he went through learning how to convert his simulation data to MPEG format. Short and simple, and if you have a Linux system you can probably recreate this work pretty easily.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6273&mode=&order=0

David Clunie’s Medical Image Format Site

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Posted in September 28th, 2002

Published in Links, Lossless Compression, Image Compression

David Clunie is the chair of the DICOM standards committee, and has a wealth of links on this page to information related to medical imaging.

http://dclunie.com/

Ultra GIF Optimizer

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Posted in September 22nd, 2002

Published in Commercial Programs, GIF - Compuserve's Graphics Interchange Format

Ultra GIF Optimizer is a powerful tool for optimizing GIF images. It can makes your web page load faster,save your server bandwidth charges and disk space! This is a commercial product, but it looks like you can download it and have a trial session.

http://www.exactcom.com/products/ultragifoptimizer/

Zinf Audio Player

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Posted in September 16th, 2002

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, MP3/MPEG Audio

The Zinf audio player is a simple, but powerful audio player for Linux and Win32. It supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and Audio CD playback, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming, RTP streaming, a powerful music browser, theme support and a download manager. Zinf is based on the FreeAmp source code. However, AMP® is a trademark of PlayMedia Systems, […]

http://www.zinf.org/

TCompLHA component set

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Posted in September 15th, 2002

Published in Commercial Libraries, LHA

A Delphi component. TCompLHA helps you create and manage archives compatible with the popular freeware LHArc and LHA utilities (these archives can also be processed by the popular WinZip program if you have LHA). Simple one-step methods such as Scan, Compress, Expand, Delete and Verify make archive management very easy. In addition it includes the […]

http://www.spis.co.nz/complha.htm

LAME Ain’t an Mp3 Encoder

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Posted in September 15th, 2002

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, MP3/MPEG Audio

Despite the protestations, you can use LAME to create MP3 streams. It does it with the magic of the ISO demo code. LAME isn’t lame, lots of people seem to like it.

http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/

Ogg Vorbis Wins a Listening Test

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Posted in September 15th, 2002

Published in Results, Audio

This German news item reports on a test that pitched Ogg Vorbis against MP3, Window Media, AAC, and RealAudio. My Babelfish translation says In particular with 64 kBit/s Ogg Vorbis could convince and left the entire prominent competition behind itself. I think that means it won!

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.09.02-000/

Voice Recording Applet SDK

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Posted in September 15th, 2002

Published in Commercial Libraries, Speech

The voice recording applet SDK is designed for the web developers and allows to record the voice from web site, to compress it and to send to the web server via HTTP. To playback the recorded voice from the server the embedded voice streaming player or a separate player as a voice streaming applet can […]

http://www.vimas.com/ve_record_applet_sdk.htm