1996 Data Compression Conference: March 31-April 3, 1996 Snowbird, Utah

Sixty-two technical presentations and 42 poster sessions comprise the April 1996 conference proceedings distinguished by its high level of expertise. A sampling of subject matter indicates the professional level of this symmetric trellis coded vector quantization, lossless compression of grayscale images via context tree weighting, pattern based compression of text images, and optimal bit allocation for biorthogonal wavelet coding. Includes color photographs, equations, and graphs. Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.