Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 384 pages
- Published by: Chapman & Hall/CRC
- Edition: 2nd Edition February 26, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1584883138
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1584883135
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Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression (Hardcover)
The authors of this well balanced textbook succeed admirably well in teaching the subject to the union of students in math and in cs, and to engineers. The danger with subjects that cut accross fields is that they might appeal to the intersection of audiences involved rather than to the much larger union. The authors seem to be at home with all the types of readers, they realize that the lingo and the aim is different for the different and diverse groups of students. Indeed, the tools of information theory, data compression, and arithmetic coding are widely used in science. While the mathematical parts of the subject is old[Shannon, Kolmogorov..., measurements of information, entropy, channel capacity], the applications are still going strong, with new things coming out at a fast rate right up to the present. So the emphasis in the book on data and image compression is very appropriate. There is even a JPEGtool user's guide in the appendix.
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