An entropy coding attempts to approach this lower bound. Two of the most common entropy coding techniques are Huffman coding and arithmetic coding. If...

Arithmetic coding (AC) is a form of entropy encoding used in lossless data compression. Normally, a string of characters is represented using a fixed number...

noisy channels in his noisy-channel coding theorem. Entropy in information theory is directly analogous to the entropy in statistical thermodynamics. The...

for Huffman coding, Picture Coding Symposium, 2015. J. Duda, Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression...

In information theory, Shannon's source coding theorem (or noiseless coding theorem) establishes the statistical limits to possible data compression for...

entropy coding, specifically counting (runs) of repeated symbols, which are then encoded. For the simple case of Bernoulli processes, Golomb coding is...

Range coding (or range encoding) is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic...

Thomas, Wiegand. "Reduced-Complexity Entropy Coding of Transform Coefficient Levels Using Truncated Golomb-Rice Codes in Video Compression" (PDF). Gary Sullivan;...

Kraft–McMillan theorem establishes that any directly decodable coding scheme for coding a message to identify one value x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} out of...

this set of codes in an adaptive coding scheme; "Rice coding" can refer either to that adaptive scheme or to using that subset of Golomb codes. Whereas a...

Kimura, Shigenori Kino, Fumitaka Ono, and Masayuki Yoshida – Coding apparatus and coding method The JPEG specification also cites three other patents...

Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. It...

capacity, error exponents, and relative entropy. Important sub-fields of information theory include source coding, algorithmic complexity theory, algorithmic...

62 and 2.28. Kaur, Sandeep; Singh, Sukhjeet (May 2016). "Entropy Coding and Different Coding Techniques" (PDF). Journal of Network Communications and...

difference coding using a discrete cosine transform (DCT) of size 8×8, scalar quantization, and variable-length codes (like Huffman codes) for entropy coding. H...

variable-length coding strategies are Huffman coding, Lempel–Ziv coding, arithmetic coding, and context-adaptive variable-length coding. The extension of a code is...

Unary coding, or the unary numeral system and also sometimes called thermometer code, is an entropy encoding that represents a natural number, n, with...

Entropy is a scientific concept that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used...

Context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) is a form of entropy coding used in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding. It is an inherently lossless compression...

Zigzag code, nor the JPEG Zig-zag entropy coding). Elias gamma (γ) coding Elias omega (ω) coding Golomb-Rice code Elias, Peter (March 1975). "Universal...

and information theory, Tunstall coding is a form of entropy coding used for lossless data compression. Tunstall coding was the subject of Brian Parker...

generic regions may all use arithmetic coding or huffman coding. JBIG2 specifically uses the MQ coder, the same entropy encoder employed by JPEG 2000. Patents...

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a...

code that is asymptotically optimal: Elias gamma coding * Elias delta coding * ‡ Elias omega coding *[further explanation needed] ‡ Exp-Golomb coding...

the entropy coding design problem to be separated from the design of the quantizer itself. Modern entropy coding techniques such as arithmetic coding can...

Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) is a form of entropy encoding used in the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standards. It is...

managed using a ring buffer. The residuals are coded using either Golomb-Rice coding or range coding. Both options use a very large context model. The...

Predictive coding – used in DPCM Entropy encoding – the two most common entropy encoding techniques are arithmetic coding and Huffman coding Adaptive dictionary...

} code or Elias gamma code is a universal code encoding positive integers developed by Peter Elias.: 197, 199  It is used most commonly when coding integers...

differencing connection. Entropy coding originated in the 1940s with the introduction of Shannon–Fano coding, the basis for Huffman coding which was developed...