ECE 499/599 Data Compression and Information Theory

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Homeworks

• 04/11/06: Homework 1 is due 04/18/06. solution
• 04/19/06: Homework 2 is due 04/27/06. solution
• 04/27/06: Homework 3 is due 05/04/06. solution
• 05/16/06: Homework 4 is due 05/23/06. input file , solution by Bryce Hutchings.
• 05/16/06: Midterm solution
• 05/22/06: Homework 5 is due 05/30/06. Lena image Barbara image , solution by Dong Nguyen (problems 1 and 3).
• 06/02/06: Practice problem on wavelets

Lecture Notes

• 04/04/06: Lecture 1 (introduction to compression) is available here pdf
• 04/10/06: Lecture 2 (information theory 1) is available here ppt
• 04/11/06: Lecture 3 & 4 (information theory 2) is available here pdf
• 04/18/06: Lecture 5 (Entropy coding) is available here pdf
• 04/25/06: Lecture 6 (Huffman coding) is available here pdf
• 04/26/06: Lecture 7 (Run-length, Golomb, and Tunstall coding) is available here pdf
• 04/26/06: Lecture 8(Arithmetic coding part I) is available here pdf
• 05/03/06: Lecture 9 (Arithmetic coding part II) is available here pdf
• 05/04/06: Lecture 10 (Dictionary coding) is available here ppt
• 05/15/06: Lecture 11 (Context coding) is available here pdf
• 05/18/06: Lecture 12 (Quantization and Lossy Image Compression) is available here pdf
• 05/22/06: Lecture 13 (Vector Quantization) is available here pdf
• 05/22/06: Lecture 13+ (Nearest Neighbor Search) is available here pdf
• 05/25/06: Lecture 14 (Predictive Coding and Transform Coding) is available here pdf
• 05/30/06: Lecture 15 (Wavelet) is available here pdf
• 06/06/06: Lecture 16 (EZW) is available here pdf

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