Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...

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Many of today's embedded systems are providing more sophisticated solutions to a wide variety of applications and industries. With this increase in sophistication, there is a corresponding increase in ...

Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

Optimizing data compression methods has become more critical than ever for cloud storage, data management, and streaming applications. Working with compressed data reduces network bandwidth, data ...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to visit the New York City office of XLABS, a group that claims to have achieved 99% compression for videos being streamed over the Internet. If the claim is valid, its ...

The Layer II coder provides a higher compression rate by making some relatively minor modifications to the Layer I coding scheme. These modifications include how the samples are grouped together, the ...