Coding, information theory and compression constitute the backbone of modern digital communications and data storage. Grounded in Shannon’s seminal work, information theory quantifies the ...

In MPEG Layer III coding the compression gain is mainly achieved through the unequal distribution of energy in the different frequency bands, the use of the psychoacoustic model, and Huffman coding.

Despite being primarily trained on text, these models achieved remarkable compression rates on image and audio data.

Prof. Abraham Lempel, an Israeli computer scientist considered one of the fathers of data compression and the man who changed the field of computer science, died on Sunday at age 87.

We will look at audio compression approaches in the context of audio compression standards. Principally, we will examine the different MPEG standards for audio compression. These include MPEG Layer I, ...