Compression

ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue
Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
http://oldwww.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-3/

The Art of Lossless Data Compression
Results of tests performed to compare lossless compression of various data by all known good enough programs. Descriptions of test terms and files. Links to related programs, and pages.
http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/1995/

Arturo Campos: Compression Programming
Articles on various compression algorithms.
http://www.arturocampos.com/

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

comp.compression Frequently Asked Questions
List from Usenet.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/

Compression - Computing Reference
Explanation of compression and various compression schemes at eLook Computing Reference.
http://www.elook.org/computing/compression.htm

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/

3D Graphics Compression Homepage
A directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web.
http://www.3dcompression.com/

Data Compression
From PC Webopedia definition and links.
http://webopedia.com/TERM/d/data_compression.html

Data Compression Reference Center
Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, and a glossary.
http://oldwww.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/

The Data Compression Resource
Algorithms, links, comparisons, conferences, corpora and the home of the compressor ABC.
http://www.data-compression.info/

Data-Compression.com
A website devoted to the principles and practice of data compression.
http://www.data-compression.com

DataCompression.info
Directory of data compression sites. Allows user to rate the listed sites.
http://datacompression.info/

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

The LBE Data Compression Algorithm
A Huffman like algorithm that uses triangular matrices, rather than binary trees, for string substitution. Free source code available.
http://in.geocities.com/iamthebiggestone/

MacKiDo
Provides brief overview of shape compression, run-length encoding, and Lempel-Ziv.
http://www.igeek.com/articles/Software/Compression.txt

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

Practical Huffman Coding
A tutorial by Michael Schindler.
http://www.compressconsult.com/huffman/

Sparse Matrix Compression Schemes
Pseudocode for a spare matrix compression algorithm.
http://www.angelfire.com/ri/hirschberg/

SPIHT
The Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees algorithm for image and video compression. Documentation and resources.
http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/research/SPIHT

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/

Vcodex
Video and image coding tutorials, links, resources and research.
http://www.vcodex.com/