In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original...

Lossless compression is a class of data compression that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data with no loss...

technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding...

Data compression ratio, also known as compression power, is a measurement of the relative reduction in size of data representation produced by a data...

In data compression and psychoacoustics, transparency is the result of lossy data compression accurate enough that the compressed result is perceptually...

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...

caused by the application of lossy compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the media's data so that it becomes small enough to...

asymmetry, in the context of data compression, refer to the time relation between compression and decompression for a given compression algorithm. If an algorithm...

Image compression is a type of data compression applied to digital images, to reduce their cost for storage or transmission. Algorithms may take advantage...

Deflate (stylized as DEFLATE, and also called Flate) is a lossless data compression file format that uses a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. It...

Smart Data Compression is a compressed GIS dataset format developed by Esri. It stores all types of feature data and attribute information together as...

original size. The algorithm became the first widely used universal data compression method used on computers. The algorithm was used in the compress program...

HTTP compression is a capability that can be built into web servers and web clients to improve transfer speed and bandwidth utilization. HTTP data is compressed...

method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted...

genomic re-sequencing data emphasizes the growing demand for efficient methods for genomic data compression. While standard data compression tools (e.g., zip...

image compression algorithms (e.g. JPEG), S3TC's fixed-rate data compression coupled with the single memory access (cf. Color Cell Compression and some...

lossless data compression algorithm that is focused on compression and decompression speed. It belongs to the LZ77 family of byte-oriented compression schemes...

MPEG-1 Audio or MPEG-2 Audio encoded data, without other complexities of the MP3 standard. Concerning audio compression, which is its most apparent element...

targeted at mobile phones. It is known for its small app size and data compression technology, making it popular in emerging markets where people tend...

was intended as a replacement for LZW and other patent-encumbered data compression algorithms which, at the time, limited the usability of the compress...

Snappy (previously known as Zippy) is a fast data compression and decompression library written in C++ by Google based on ideas from LZ77 and open-sourced...

different advantages and disadvantages, centered mainly around amount of data compression. These different algorithms for video frames are called picture types...

smallest amount of information required to convey a message, as in data compression. For example, consider the transmission of sequences comprising the...

runtime. Texture data is often the largest source of memory usage in a mobile application. In their seminal paper on texture compression, Beers, Agrawala...

Fractal compression is a lossy compression method for digital images, based on fractals. The method is best suited for textures and natural images, relying...

drives with compression, the compressibility of the data will affect the capacity.[how?] Tape is characterized by sequential access to data. While tape...

lossless data compression in which runs of data (consecutive occurrences of the same data value) are stored as a single occurrence of that data value and...

conveniently-sized smaller "chunks". In data deduplication, data synchronization and remote data compression, Chunking is a process to split a file into...

year. The compression is performed in real time, as the signals are acquired; it calculates a compression decision before all the compressed data is received...

engine Compression (geology) Compression or compressive strength Bandwidth compression, reducing effort in data transmission Data compression, reducing...