Web Directory

» 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/

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

» 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/

» 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/

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

» 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

» 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/

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

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

» 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

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

» 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/

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