Smplify CEO Al Wegener reviews the many ways files are compressed in personal computer systems, including the "x" extension on Windows files, Windows "Disc-Compress," Lempel-Ziv (LZ) for OpenXML, MLC ...

Many methods of lossy compression have been developed; however, a family of techniques called transform compression has proven the most valuable. The best example of transform compression is embodied ...

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.

There are two categories of data compression. The first reduces the size of a single file to save storage space and transmit faster. The second is for storage and transmission convenience. The JPEG ...

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Data Compression is one of the most important components of this world, driven by petabytes of data daily. We, as humans, are generating data every second. From walking to running, eating to drinking, ...

Compression technology benefits our daily lives so entirely, it goes unnoticed. It’s been a long, bizarre trip since compression’s early days in the 1950s, when mathematicians first developed lossless ...

Coding, information theory and compression constitute the backbone of modern digital communications and data storage. Grounded in Shannon’s seminal work, information theory quantifies the ...