Lossless compression is a class of data compression that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data with no loss...
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the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating...
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as more details are removed. This is opposed to lossless data compression (reversible data compression) which does not degrade the data. The amount of...
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Lossless predictive audio compression (LPAC) is an improved lossless audio compression algorithm developed by Tilman Liebchen, Marcus Purat and Peter Noll...
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Lossless Transform Audio Compression (LTAC) is a compression algorithm developed by Tilman Liebchen, Marcus Purat and Peter Noll at Institute for Telecommunications...
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Lossless JPEG is a 1993 addition to JPEG standard by the Joint Photographic Experts Group to enable lossless compression. However, the term may also be...
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reference audio codec implementation, developed by Apple for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially keeping it proprietary from...
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Image file format (section Image file compression)
If the data is compressed, it may be done so using lossy compression or lossless compression. For graphic design applications, vector formats are often...
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FLAC (redirect from Free lossless audio codec)
FLAC (/flæk/; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and...
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Weissman score (category Data compression)
The Weissman score is a performance metric for lossless compression applications. It was developed by Tsachy Weissman, a professor at Stanford University...
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LZ77 and LZ78 (redirect from Data compression/LZ77 78)
LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978. They are also known...
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WebP (category Image compression)
for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the...
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with lossless data compression techniques. For more information read the Increasing speeds section in the Modem article. Bandwidth Compression is a core...
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generic data compression methods which are used for other digital data. Image compression may be lossy or lossless. Lossless compression is preferred...
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List of algorithms (redirect from List of lossless compression algorithms)
coding Levenshtein coding Fast Efficient & Lossless Image Compression System (FELICS): a lossless image compression algorithm Incremental encoding: delta encoding...
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Brotli (redirect from Brotli Compression)
a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Jyrki Alakuijala and Zoltán Szabadka. It uses a combination of the general-purpose LZ77 lossless compression...
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Burrows in 1994. Their paper included a compression algorithm, called the Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm or BSLDCA, that compresses data...
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Audio coding format (redirect from List of lossless audio coding formats)
RealPlayer (RealAudio Lossless) Shorten (SHN) TTA (True Audio Lossless) WavPack (WavPack lossless) WMA Lossless (Windows Media Lossless) Comparison of audio...
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PNG (category Image compression)
/ˌpiːɛnˈdʒiː/ PEE-en-JEE) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for...
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raw header-less PCM; Note wav can alternatively use compression. Formats with lossless compression, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio (filename extension .ape)...
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space-effective lossless video compression. As of 2007 MSU had the second-best compression ratio when compared to many other lossless video codecs, with...
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Deflate (redirect from Deflation (data compression))
computing, Deflate (stylized as DEFLATE, and also called Flate) is a lossless data compression file format that uses a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding...
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Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) is a lossless image format claiming to outperform PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG 2000 in terms of...
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Monkey's Audio (category Lossless audio codecs)
format for lossless audio data compression. Lossless data compression does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods...
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Hutter Prize (redirect from Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge)
Hutter Prize is a cash prize funded by Marcus Hutter which rewards data compression improvements on a specific 1 GB English text file, with the goal of encouraging...
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moving images than the flicker test. A perceptually lossless compression is always free of compression artifacts, but the inverse is not true: it is possible...
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Gzip (redirect from Gzip compression)
[citation needed] Research published in 2023 showed that simple lossless compression techniques such as gzip could be combined with a k-nearest-neighbor...
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Ut Video Codec Suite (category Lossless compression algorithms)
UT Video Codec Suite is a fast, lossless video codec, developed by Takeshi Umezawa (梅澤 威志, Umezawa Takeshi) and released under the free GNU General Public...
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LZ4 is a lossless data compression algorithm that is focused on compression and decompression speed. It belongs to the LZ77 family of byte-oriented compression...
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G.711 (redirect from Lossless compression of G.711 pulse code modulation)
Two enhancements to G.711 have been published: G.711.0 utilizes lossless data compression to reduce the bandwidth usage and G.711.1 increases audio quality...
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