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Data Compression, 4,5 ECTS credits.
/Datakompression/
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 46
Rec. self-study hours: 74
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Area of Education: Technology
Subject area: Electrical Engineering
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Advancement level
(A-D): D
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Aim:
The course treats coding and data compression from an information-theoretic view. The main issues are information sources, entropy, mutual information, source coding theorem, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, Universal coding, Lempel-Ziv Coding.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Probability theory
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Supplementary courses:
TSBK02 Image and Audio Coding, TSDT83 Information Theory
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Organisation:
The course consists of lectures, lessons and laboratory work.
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Course contents:
Statistical source models. Lossless coding, Entropy, Source Coding Theorem, Huffman Coding, Arithmetic Coding, Universal Coding, Lempel-Ziv coding. Analog signals. Rate-Distortion bounds.
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Course literature:
No strictly specified course literature. Students that intend to follow the subsequent cource TSBK02 Image and Audio Coding is recommended to the main literature for that cource: Khalid Sayood, "Introduction to Data Compression", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-558-4
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Examination: |
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A written exam Small computer project |
2 p 1 p
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Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: ISY.
Director of Studies: Lasse Alfredsson
Examiner: Robert Forchheimer
Link to the course homepage at the department
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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