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  • Bijective BWT (7 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 (116 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 (3 Comments)

    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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.

Data Compression Conference (DCC) - 2006

Posted by Sachin Garg on 9th March 2006 | Permanent Link

The annual Data Compression Conference in Snowbird, Utah is one of the biggest academic events for data compression enthusiasts. This year its scheduled for March 28 - 30, 2006.

Detailed conference program is available. (txt/pdf).

2 Responses to “Data Compression Conference (DCC) - 2006”

  1. Blogman Says:
    March 19th, 2006 at 8:40 am

    is ther e a permant way to keep up on this blog?

  2. Sachin Garg Says:
    March 19th, 2006 at 11:03 am

    I am not sure I understand what you mean by “keeping up”. If you want to keep a track of things going on here, you can either visit regularly, or use the RSS feeds.

    Or if you just want to review things very occasionally, you can subscribe to the monthly compression newsletter (links to feeds and newsletter are in sidebar).

    If you were asking something else, let me know :-)

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