• Ratedistortion theory is a major branch of information theory which provides the theoretical foundations for lossy data compression; it addresses the...
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  • specified fidelity level measured by a distortion function. This subset of information theory is called ratedistortion theory. Error-correcting codes (channel...
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    performs lossy compression with a rate (number of bits per quality value) specified by the user. Based on rate-distortion theory results, it allocates the number...
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    compression are provided by rate-distortion theory. Much like the use of probability in optimal coding theory, rate-distortion theory heavily draws on Bayesian...
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  • In information theory, the cross-entropy between two probability distributions p {\displaystyle p} and q {\displaystyle q} , over the same underlying set...
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    In information theory, the entropy of a random variable quantifies the average level of uncertainty or information associated with the variable's potential...
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    sampling theorem One-time pad Product cipher Pulse-code modulation Rate distortion theory Sampling Shannon capacity Shannon entropy Shannon index Shannon...
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  • best known for his work in information theory, including the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm used in ratedistortion theory. Blahut was born in Orange, New Jersey...
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  • In the mathematical theory of probability, the entropy rate or source information rate is a function assigning an entropy to a stochastic process. For...
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  • performs lossy compression with a rate (number of bits per quality value) specified by the user. Based on rate-distortion theory results, it allocates the number...
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  • Shannon–Hartley theorem (category Information theory)
    In information theory, the Shannon–Hartley theorem tells the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted over a communications channel of a specified...
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    In chemistry, transition state theory (TST) explains the reaction rates of elementary chemical reactions. The theory assumes a special type of chemical...
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    levels a quantizer uses, the lower is its quantization noise power. Ratedistortion optimized quantization is encountered in source coding for lossy data...
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    theory) – Expectation value of time-ordered quantum operators Mutual information – Measure of dependence between two variables Rate distortion theory –...
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  • (statistical mechanics) Correlation function (quantum field theory) Mutual information Rate distortion theory Radial distribution function Gubner, John A. (2006)...
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  • mixture model and thus also determine information criterion values. Rate distortion theory has been applied to choosing k called the "jump" method, which determines...
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  • Information Theory. 19 (4): 471–480. doi:10.1109/TIT.1973.1055037. ISSN 0018-9448. Wyner, Aaron D.; Ziv, Jacob (January 1976). "The rate-distortion function...
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  • electrical engineering, computer science, and information theory, is the theoretical maximum rate at which information can be reliably transmitted over a...
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  • In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original...
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    sample rate , the resulting discrete-time sequence is said to be free of the distortion known as aliasing. Conversely, for a given sample rate the corresponding...
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  • Shannon's source coding theorem (category Information theory)
    or recovered within some distortion (lossy source coding). This is one approach to data compression. In information theory, the source coding theorem...
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  • it is possible (in theory) to communicate discrete data (digital information) nearly error-free up to a computable maximum rate through the channel....
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    compressed images show increasingly visible defects. See the article on ratedistortion theory for a mathematical explanation of this threshold effect. A particular...
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    In information theory, the conditional entropy quantifies the amount of information needed to describe the outcome of a random variable Y {\displaystyle...
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  • Octave illusion Pitch (music) Precedence effect Psycholinguistics Rate-distortion theory Sound localization Sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard Sound...
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    In information theory, joint entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a set of variables. The joint Shannon entropy (in bits) of two discrete...
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  • Blahut–Arimoto algorithm (category Coding theory)
    numerically either the information theoretic capacity of a channel, the rate-distortion function of a source or a source encoding (i.e. compression to remove...
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    Mutual information (category Information theory)
    In probability theory and information theory, the mutual information (MI) of two random variables is a measure of the mutual dependence between the two...
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    Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing...
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  • Hamming bound (category Coding theory)
    Gilbert-Varshamov bound Griesmer bound Johnson bound Plotkin bound Rate-distortion theory Singleton bound Tietäväinen 1973. McWilliams and Sloane, p. 19 Roman...
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