Efficient data compression and transmission are crucial in space missions due to restricted resources, such as bandwidth and storage capacity. This requires efficient data-compression methods that ...

The goal of digital compression algorithms is to produce a digital representation of an audio signal which, when decoded and reproduced, sounds the same as the original signal, while using a minimum ...

Compression continues to be an active academic and commercial research area, and some clear trends for 2011 are emerging. Markets that have used compression for years are hitting the wall as they ...

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Imagine streaming an entire 100 Gigabyte 4K movie over a basic text message. Not just a link to where your device can find the movie...but the entire movie embedded INTO THE TEXT. No WiFi or broadband ...

Facebook is open sourcing a new compression algorithm called Zstandard that aims to replace the common technology behind the Zip file format. The most common algorithm behind the Zip file format is ...