PKZIP Application Note
- Describes the compression and decompression algorithms used by PKZIP.
- http://www.pkware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=107
Compression - Computing Reference
- Explanation of compression and various compression schemes at eLook Computing Reference.
- http://www.elook.org/computing/compression.htm
Data Compression
- From PC Webopedia definition and links.
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/d/data_compression.html
MacKiDo
- Provides brief overview of shape compression, run-length encoding, and Lempel-Ziv.
- http://www.igeek.com/articles/Software/Compression.txt
Compression via Arithmetic Coding in Java
- Unrestricted open-source Java implementation of the PPM (prediction by partial matching) algorithm for text and data compression by Bob Carpenter. Builds with ant.
- http://www.colloquial.com/ArithmeticCoding/
Data Compression Reference Center
- Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, and a glossary.
- http://oldwww.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/
SPIHT
- The Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees algorithm for image and video compression. Documentation and resources.
- http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/research/SPIHT
3D Graphics Compression Homepage
- A directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web.
- http://www.3dcompression.com/
The Data Compression Resource
- Algorithms, links, comparisons, conferences, corpora and the home of the compressor ABC.
- http://www.data-compression.info/
DataCompression.info
- Directory of data compression sites. Allows user to rate the listed sites.
- http://datacompression.info/
Vcodex
- Video and image coding tutorials, links, resources and research.
- http://www.vcodex.com/
Groovyweb Compression Tutorials
- Compression tutorials, links to other compression sites and compression downloads.
- http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/index.php?page_name=compression
Tutorial on Image Compression
- A tutorial on Image Compression, with step by step procedural examples and list of references, along with sample code.
- http://www.debugmode.com/imagecmp/
ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue
- Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-3
Practical Huffman Coding
- A tutorial by Michael Schindler.
- http://www.compressconsult.com/huffman/
The Canterbury Corpus
- A set of benchmark results for various lossless compression methods. Includes test files and compression test results for many research compression methods.
- http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz
Dr Ross's Compression Crypt
- LZRW* text compression algorithms. Links to other compression sites.
- http://www.ross.net/compression/
How Stuff Works: How File Compression Works
- Detailed narrative fully describes how a file is actually deflated, or compressed to get rid of redundancy - and save space.
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm
Mitsuharu Arimura's Data Compression Pointers
- Very large list of links, including books and lecture notes, benchmarkings, archives, image/graphic compression, fractal compression, wavelets, video and audio compression, and links to other link lists.
- http://www.hn.is.uec.ac.jp/~arimura/compression_links.html