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

Organized

48 responses

4.21

/ 5

strongly agree
46%
agree
44%
disagree
6%
strongly disagree
4%
25%
50%
75%
100%

Learned a Lot

48 responses

4.27

/ 5

strongly agree
50%
agree
42%
disagree
2%
strongly disagree
6%
25%
50%
75%
100%

Recommend

48 responses

3.92

/ 5

strongly agree
40%
agree
42%
disagree
8%
strongly disagree
10%
25%
50%
75%
100%

Workload

48 responses

1.96

/ 5

very heavy
38%
heavier than average
29%
average
33%
lighter than average
0%
very light
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%

Fair Assessments

48 responses

4.21

/ 5

strongly agree
52%
agree
35%
disagree
6%
strongly disagree
6%
question not applicable
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%