Useful Data Compression Links

  • Khalid Sayood, author of 'Introduction to Data Compression'
  • Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Nelson, author of 'The Data Compression Handbook'
  • Timothy Bell, John Cleary and Ian Witten, authors of 'Text Compression'
  • James Storer, author of 'Data Compression: Methods and Theory'
  • Mark Adler, co-author of internet gzip, Info-Zip and zlib
  • Radford Neal, author of a detailed paper on arithmetic coding (with Ian Witten and John Cleary)
  • Alistair Moffat, arithmetic coding, minimum-redundancy codes, index compression
  • Andrew Turpin, minimum-redundancy prefix codes
  • Michael Schindlers, author of szip (blocksort variant) and range encoder (byte arithmetic coder)
  • Steve Tate, modified sorting of Burrows-Wheeler Transform
  • Julian Seward, author of bzip

  • Craig Nevill-Manning, detecting structure in a sequence
  • Éric Rivals, compression schemes for the analysis of genetic sequences
  • Olivier Delgrange, chromosome analysis using compression algorithms

  • John Danskin, scanned document compression and protocol compression
  • Qin Zhang, document image compression by pattern matching
  • Omid Kia , document image compression by symbolic decomposition and structural ordering
  • Stuart Inglis, document image compression using machine learning and layout information
  • Jesper Larsson, applications of context trees and suffix trees to data compression

  • Abraham Lempel, co-inventor of famous Lempel-Ziv dictionary based data compression schemes (with Jacob Ziv)
  • Ross Williams, author of 'Adaptive Data Compression' and LZRW (Lempel-Ziv-Markov method)
  • Martin Cohn, LZ-schemes with deferred innovation
  • Markus Oberhumer, author of LZO
  • LZW, PKZIP, ZipMagic and WinZip, the dictionary based compression schemes

  • Multiple-Dictionary Compression using Partial Matching, (Dzung Hoang, P. M. Long, and Jeff Vitter)
  • Parallel data compression, by Dan Hirschberg
  • Splay tree based codes, using splay trees (or self-adjusting binary search trees)
  • Greedy off-line textual substitution, by Stefano Lonardi

  • Frequently Asked Questions, from comp.compression and comp.compression.research newsgroups

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