27 Facts About Data compression

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Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy.

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Lossy Data compression reduces bits by removing unnecessary or less important information.

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Typically, a device that performs data compression is referred to as an encoder, and one that performs the reversal of the process as a decoder.

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The design of data compression schemes involves trade-offs among various factors, including the degree of compression, the amount of distortion introduced, and the computational resources required to compress and decompress the data.

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Lossless compression is possible because most real-world data exhibits statistical redundancy.

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Lempel–Ziv Data compression methods are among the most popular algorithms for lossless storage.

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Lossy data compression schemes are designed by research on how people perceive the data in question.

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Lossy image Data compression is used in digital cameras, to increase storage capacities.

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Speech coding is used in internet telephony, for example, audio Data compression is used for CD ripping and is decoded by the audio players.

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An exhaustive examination of the feature spaces underlying all Data compression algorithms is precluded by space; instead, feature vectors chooses to examine three representative lossless Data compression methods, LZW, LZ77, and PPM.

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Data compression can be viewed as a special case of data differencing.

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Term differential compression is used to emphasize the data differencing connection.

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An important image Data compression technique is the discrete cosine transform, a technique developed in the early 1970s.

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DEFLATE, a lossless Data compression algorithm specified in 1996, is used in the Portable Network Graphics format.

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Audio Data compression algorithms are implemented in software as audio codecs.

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Lossy audio Data compression algorithms provide higher Data compression and are used in numerous audio applications including Vorbis and MP3.

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Lossless audio compression produces a representation of digital data that can be decoded to an exact digital duplicate of the original.

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Lossy compression typically achieves far greater compression than lossless compression, by discarding less-critical data based on psychoacoustic optimizations.

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In contrast to the speed of Data compression, which is proportional to the number of operations required by the algorithm, here latency refers to the number of samples that must be analyzed before a block of audio is processed.

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World's first commercial broadcast automation audio Data compression system was developed by Oscar Bonello, an engineering professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

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Two key video Data compression techniques used in video coding standards are the discrete cosine transform and motion compensation.

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Inter-frame compression uses data from one or more earlier or later frames in a sequence to describe the current frame.

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Usually, video compression additionally employs lossy compression techniques like quantization that reduce aspects of the source data that are irrelevant to the human visual perception by exploiting perceptual features of human vision.

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Wavelet Data compression is used in still-image coders and video coders without motion compensation.

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Interest in fractal Data compression seems to be waning, due to recent theoretical analysis showing a comparative lack of effectiveness of such methods.

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Genetics compression algorithms are the latest generation of lossless algorithms that compress data using both conventional compression algorithms and genetic algorithms adapted to the specific datatype.

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HAPZIPPER was tailored for HapMap data and achieves over 20-fold compression, providing 2- to 4-fold better compression and is less computationally intensive than the leading general-purpose compression utilities.

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