Arithmetic Coding with Folds and Unfolds

Arithmetic coding is a method for data compression. It produces a theoretically optimal compression under much weaker assumptions than Huffman and Shannon-Fano, and can compress within one bit of the limit imposed by Shannon's Noiseless Coding Theorem. Earlier presentations provided little in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bird, R, Gibbons, J
Format: Conference item
Published: Springer−Verlag 2003