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Lossless Compression Algorithms (Entropy Encoding)

Lossless compression frequently involves some form of entropy encoding and are based in information theoretic techniques, Shannon is father of information theory and we briefly summarise information theory below before looking at specific entropy encoding methods.



 

Dave Marshall
10/4/2001