COMP 150MDC Syllabus - Spring, 2005

Instructor:

Anselm Blumer, 214 Halligan Hall

Office hours:

MW 5:00-6:00 and by arrangement.

Phone:

(617) 627-3651 (x73651 on campus)

Home phone:

(781) 395-7743 (Please try office number first and don't call home number before 9 AM or after 10 PM. Weekends are OK.)

Email:

ablumer at cs dot tufts dot edu

Text:

Introduction to Data Compression (3rd Edition) by Khalid Sayood, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

Other good books:

Data Compression: The Complete Reference, Third Edition by David Salomon, Springer, New york, 2004

Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering: Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Standards by Yun Q. Shi and Huifang Sun, CRC Press, 1999

Video Compression Demystified by Peter Symes, McGraw Hill, 2001

Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference edited by James A. Storer and Martin Cohn, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991-2002 (at least)

Adaptive Data Compression by Ross N. Williams, Kluwer Academic, 1991

Text Compression by Bell, Cleary, and Witten, Prentice Hall, 1990

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images by Witten, Moffat, and Bell, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994

JPEG Still Image Data Compression Standard by Pennebaker and Mitchell, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993

MPEG Handbook by John Watkinson, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001