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  • Bijective BWT (2 Comments)

    David Scott has written a bijective BWT transform, which brings all the advantages of bijectiveness to BWT based compressors. Among other things, making BWT more suitable for compression-before-encryption and also give (slightly) better compression.

  • Asymmetric Binary System (107 Comments)

    Jarek Duda’s “Asymmetric Binary System” promises to be an alternate to arithmetic coding, having all the advantages, but being much simpler. Matt has coded a PAQ based compressor using ABS for back-end encoding. Update: Andrew Polar has written an alternate implementation of ABS.

  • Precomp: More Compression for your Compressed Files

    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them. Christian Schneider’s Precomp comes to rescue by undoing the harm.

  • On2 Technologies is Hiring

    There aren’t too many companies working on cutting edge codecs, and of those few this one is hiring. Best of luck.

  • China’s AVS Specifications Available (2 Comments)

    Its old news that China has developed their own Advanced Video Standard to avoid high licensing fees. English translation of the standard is now available, along with the IPR policy. Finally something technical that you can get your hands on to feed your appetite.

Wireless Comes to GSPx 2005

Posted by Sachin Garg on 30th August 2005 | Permanent Link

We had earlier reported on Video Compression Tutorials at GSPx which were to be presented by Nokia and Microsoft.

Global Technology Conferences has now announced three wireless tutorials for GSPx 2005. The tutorials will cover WiMAX, ZigBee, UWB and Wireless LAN. GSPx, the signal processing conference and expo, will take place October 24-27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California.

GSPx 2005 now has 4 sections/categories: Video Compression, Wireless, SAR Imagery and Multicores. For details check their website. You can download complete conference program here (pdf).

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