ELG 5126 Source Coding and Data Compression
3 units
Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Lossless coding: discrete sources, entropy rate, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary methods. Lossy coding: continuous sources, rate-distortion functions. Waveform coding methods: scalar and vector quantization, predictive coding, transform coding, subband and wavelet coding. Applications to telecommunications and storage: text, speech, audio, facsimile, image, video.
Components:
Lecture
Requirements:
Courses ELG 5126 and ELG 6167 cannot be combined for units.
Previously Offered Terms:
Fall