An entropy coding attempts to approach this lower bound. Two of the most common entropy coding techniques are Huffman coding and arithmetic coding. If...
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Arithmetic coding (AC) is a form of entropy encoding used in lossless data compression. Normally, a string of characters is represented using a fixed number...
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In information theory, Shannon's source coding theorem (or noiseless coding theorem) establishes the statistical limits to possible data compression for...
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entropy coding, specifically counting (runs) of repeated symbols, which are then encoded. For the simple case of Bernoulli processes, Golomb coding is...
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Thomas, Wiegand. "Reduced-Complexity Entropy Coding of Transform Coefficient Levels Using Truncated Golomb-Rice Codes in Video Compression" (PDF). Gary Sullivan;...
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noisy channels in his noisy-channel coding theorem. Entropy in information theory is directly analogous to the entropy in statistical thermodynamics. The...
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Range coding (or range encoding) is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic...
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this set of codes in an adaptive coding scheme; "Rice coding" can refer either to that adaptive scheme or to using that subset of Golomb codes. Whereas a...
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62 and 2.28. Kaur, Sandeep; Singh, Sukhjeet (May 2016). "Entropy Coding and Different Coding Techniques" (PDF). Journal of Network Communications and...
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Kraft–McMillan theorem establishes that any directly decodable coding scheme for coding a message to identify one value x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} out of...
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Asymmetric numeral systems (redirect from Finite State Entropy)
for Huffman coding, Picture Coding Symposium, 2015. J. Duda, Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression...
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Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. It...
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Zigzag code, nor the JPEG Zig-zag entropy coding). Elias gamma (γ) coding Elias omega (ω) coding Golomb-Rice code Elias, Peter (March 1975). "Universal...
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AV1 (section Entropy coding)
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a...
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JPEG (redirect from Minimum Coded Unit)
Kimura, Shigenori Kino, Fumitaka Ono, and Masayuki Yoshida – Coding apparatus and coding method The JPEG specification also cites three other patents...
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JBIG2 (section Entropy coding)
generic regions may all use arithmetic coding or huffman coding. JBIG2 specifically uses the MQ coder, the same entropy encoder employed by JPEG 2000. Patents...
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to as "coding" Coding (therapy), alternative therapeutic methods used to treat addictions in the post-Soviet countries Queer coding Code Entropy encoding...
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MPEG-1 (section Entropy coding)
difference coding using a discrete cosine transform (DCT) of size 8×8, scalar quantization, and variable-length codes (like Huffman codes) for entropy coding. H...
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Quantization (signal processing) (section Neglecting the entropy constraint: Lloyd–Max quantization)
the entropy coding design problem to be separated from the design of the quantizer itself. Modern entropy coding techniques such as arithmetic coding can...
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and information theory, Tunstall coding is a form of entropy coding used for lossless data compression. Tunstall coding was the subject of Brian Parker...
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base NegaFibonacci coding Ostrowski numeration Universal code Varicode, a practical application Zeckendorf's theorem Maximal entropy random walk Basu,...
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Context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) is a form of entropy coding used in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding. It is an inherently lossless compression...
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Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) is a form of entropy encoding used in the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standards. It is...
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Unary coding, or the unary numeral system, is an entropy encoding that represents a natural number, n, with n ones followed by a zero (if the term natural...
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subordinate pass are usually random enough that entropy coding provides no further coding gain. The coding performance of EZW has since been exceeded by...
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Data compression (redirect from Source Coding)
differencing connection. Entropy coding originated in the 1940s with the introduction of Shannon–Fano coding, the basis for Huffman coding which was developed...
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three nearest (causal) neighbors (upper, left, and upper-left), and entropy coding is used on the prediction error. The standard Independent JPEG Group...
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code that is asymptotically optimal: Elias gamma coding * Elias delta coding * ‡ Elias omega coding *[further explanation needed] ‡ Exp-Golomb coding...
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variable-length coding strategies are Huffman coding, Lempel–Ziv coding, arithmetic coding, and context-adaptive variable-length coding. The extension of a code is...
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Predictive coding – used in DPCM Entropy encoding – the two most common entropy encoding techniques are arithmetic coding and Huffman coding Adaptive dictionary...
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