Researchers

Abel, Jürgen
Lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT), author of ABC.
http://www.data-compression.info/JuergenAbel/

Adler, Mark
Works at JPL. Information-ZIP, gzip, zlib, and PNG.
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~madler/

Battilana, Michael C.
Text compression, Lempel-Ziv coding, author of "The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective".
http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/

Bell, Timothy C.
Author of "Managing Gigabytes." CS department head at the University of Canterbury.
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tim.bell/

Chen, Tsuhan
Audio-visual interaction and collaboration, video coding and multimedia communication.
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~tsuhan

Creusere, Charles
Perfect reconstruction filter banks, wavelets, video compression. Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.
http://www.ece.nmsu.edu/people/creusere.html

Delp, Edward J.
Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Communication Theory. Professor at Purdue.
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~ace/

Effros, Michelle
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. Communications, compression, information theory, image processing.
http://www.ee2.caltech.edu/Faculty/effros/

Florencio, Dinei
Perfect Reconstruction Non-Linear Filter Banks, the Motion Transform. Formerly a student at Georgia Tech.
http://research.microsoft.com/users/dinei/

Fowler, James E.
Assistant professor at Mississippi State. Image and video processing and coding.
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~fowler/

Frey, Brendan J.
Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Source coding, computer vision, and interative decoding.
http://www.psi.utoronto.ca/~frey/

Gailly, Jean-loup
Author of gzip, zlib, coauthor of "The Data Compression Book. "
http://gailly.net/

Gilchrist, Jeff
Author of the Archive Comparison Test (data compression benchmarks) and researcher in the area of cryptography and distributed computing.
http://www.gilchrist.ca/jeff/

Gray, Robert M.
Vector quantization for signal compression and classification.
http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/

Jégou, Hervé
IRISA, Rennes. Robust source coding, joint source/channel codes. Publications, resources, teaching.
http://www.irisa.fr/temics/Equipe/Jegou

Kieffer, John
Universal algorithms, multiresolution methods, wavelets and fractals, rate-distortion theory, and quantizer theory.
http://www.ee.umn.edu/users/kieffer/

Moffat, Alistair
University of Melbourne. Interests include text, image, and index compression.
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~alistair/

Moulin, Pierre
Image and video processing. Assistant Professor of ECE at UIUC.
http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~moulin/

Nelson, Mark
Coauthor of "The Data Compression Book." Addisoft Consulting, Inc.
http://www.dogma.net/markn/

Nosratinia, Aria
Joint Source-channel coding, image and video processing. Assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas.
http://www.utdallas.edu/~aria/

Nosratinia, Aria
(old student pages)
http://www.utdallas.edu/~aria/dance/index_old.html

Ortega, Antonio
Digital Image and Video Communication Systems, Adaptive and Multiresolution Compression Techniques, and Joint Source-Channel Coding For Transmission Over Broadcast Channels and Packet Networks. Assistant Professor at USC.
http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega/Ortega.html

Pearlman, William A.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Research interests and publications.
http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/~pearlman

Simoncelli, Eero
Computer vision, image processing, motion, and compression.
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/

Storer, Jim
The Data Compression Conference.
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/

Strutz, Tilo
Hochschule für Telekommunikation, Leipzig, (University of Applied Sciences). Field: Information and Coding Theory. Research interests: Data compression, image coding, signal processing. Textbook on Image Data Compression.
http://www.hft-leipzig.de/~strutz/

Taubman, David S.
At the University of New South Wales. Image and video compression and processing.
http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/staff/taubman/profile.htm

Verdu, Sergio
Rate-distortion theory, source coding. Professor at Princeton.
http://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/

Vinokur, Alex
Huffman Coding (including n-ary Huffman Template Algorithm). At Tadiran Scopus.
http://alexvn.freeservers.com/s1/alexvn.html

Vitter, Jeff
Chair of CS department at Duke. Interests include dynamic Huffman codes, arithmetic coding, lossless image compression, and motion compensation for video coding.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jsv/Papers/catalog/

Williams, Ross N.
Variations on Lempen Ziv coding.
http://www.ross.net/compression/

Witten, Ian H.
Coauthor of "Managing Gigabytes." Professor of CS at the University of Waikato.
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/

Yew, Tham Jo
Image and video compression, motion estimation and compensation Student at the National Univ. of Singapore.
http://wavelet.cwaip.nus.edu.sg/thamjy/

Zakhor, Avideh
Professor at Berkeley. Image and video compression.
http://www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu/~avz/