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    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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

Archive for December, 2005

Ambarella Launches Industry’s First HD H.264 System-on-Chip for Hybrid Digital Cameras

24th December 2005

Press Release: Venture-backed Start-up Sets New Standard for the High Definition Experience with Low Power, Cost-effective Platform.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

Euclid Discoveries Files 15th Patent Application

21st December 2005

Patents advance the development of EuclidVision™, their next generation of video compression technology for consumer and commercial applications.

Read More | Posted by John Scally | 78 Comments »

Mammogram followup

20th December 2005

Bradley Lucier was kind enough to follow up with some additional info on his work on mammogram image compression

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | Add Comment »

Difference-Of-Gaussian Compression

20th December 2005

Clairvoyante Inc. is marketing a technology which sure sounds like data compression

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | Add Comment »

Compression Vs. Breast Cancer

20th December 2005

Compression seems to remove noise while leaving the desired information in mammograms

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | Add Comment »

Forgent Awarded New Patent on Echo Cancellation

19th December 2005

Forgent seems to be bound on finding out patents on already-widely-used technologies.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

LizardTech’s MrSID Generation 3 Image Compression Format Now Supported in ESRI’s ArcPad 7

19th December 2005

Press Release: LizardTech announced the company’s MrSID Generation 3 image compression format (MG3) is supported in ESRI’s ArcPad 7, making it even easier to view high quality geospatial raster imagery on handheld devices.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

On2 Announces Plans to Offer Browser-Based Flash 8 Video Encoding Product

19th December 2005

Press Release: New Application Will Allows Users to Encode Files Locally and Save on Desktop or Upload to Publishing Service

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BBB To NetZero: It Ain’t Broadband

19th December 2005

Better Business Bureaus’ (BBB) National Advertising Division demand’s that NetZero should discontinue advertising claiming that NetZero “HiSpeed 3G” dial-up Internet access can deliver “broadband-like speeds.” he HiSpeed 3G service uses data compression to pump more content down a 56 Kb/s dial-up data pipe than normal and claim broadband like performance.

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The new world of digital cinema

18th December 2005

physorg.com: We are on the brink of breaking through to the new world of digital cinema (D-Cinema). The key to unlocking this potential is data compression and researchers are set to have a starring role.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »