ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue

Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-3

PKZIP Application Note

Describes the compression and decompression algorithms used by PKZIP.
http://www.pkware.com/support/appnote.html

SPIHT

The Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees algorithm for image and video compression. Documentation and resources.
http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/research/SPIHT

comp.compression Frequently Asked Questions

List from Usenet.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/

Mitsuharu Arimura's Data Compression Pointers

Very large list of links, including books and lecture notes, benchmarkings, archives, image/graphic compression, fractal compression, wavelets, video and audio compression, and links to other link lists.
http://www.hn.is.uec.ac.jp/~arimura/compression_links.html

How Stuff Works: How File Compression Works

Detailed narrative fully describes how a file is actually deflated, or compressed to get rid of redundancy - and save space.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm

The LBE Data Compression Algorithm

A Huffman like algorithm that uses triangular matrices, rather than binary trees, for string substitution. Free source code available.
http://in.geocities.com/iamthebiggestone

Dr Ross's Compression Crypt

LZRW* text compression algorithms. Links to other compression sites.
http://www.ross.net/compression/

Arturo Campos: Compression Programming

Articles on various compression algorithms.
http://www.arturocampos.com/

Data-Compression.com

A website devoted to the principles and practice of data compression.
http://www.data-compression.com

Sparse Matrix Compression Schemes

Pseudocode for a spare matrix compression algorithm.
http://www.angelfire.com/ri/hirschberg

The Canterbury Corpus

A set of benchmark results for various lossless compression methods. Includes test files and compression test results for many research compression methods.
http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz

Practical Huffman Coding

A tutorial by Michael Schindler.
http://www.compressconsult.com/huffman/

Tutorial on Image Compression

A tutorial on Image Compression, with step by step procedural examples and list of references, along with sample code.
http://www.debugmode.com/imagecmp/

Groovyweb Compression Tutorials

Compression tutorials, links to other compression sites and compression downloads.
http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/index.php?page_name=compression

Vcodex

Video and image coding tutorials, links, resources and research.
http://www.vcodex.com/

DataCompression.info

Directory of data compression sites. Allows user to rate the listed sites.
http://datacompression.info/

The Data Compression Resource

Algorithms, links, comparisons, conferences, corpora and the home of the compressor ABC.
http://www.data-compression.info/

The Art of Lossless Data Compression

Results of tests performed to compare lossless compression of various data by all known good enough programs. Descriptions of test terms and files. Links to related programs, and pages.
http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/1995/

3D Graphics Compression Homepage

A directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web.
http://www.3dcompression.com/

Data Compression Reference Center

Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, and a glossary.
http://oldwww.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/

Compression via Arithmetic Coding in Java

Unrestricted open-source Java implementation of the PPM (prediction by partial matching) algorithm for text and data compression by Bob Carpenter. Builds with ant.
http://www.colloquial.com/ArithmeticCoding/

Lossless Image Compression with Switched Linear Prediction

By Shinji Wakasugi. A simple method for lossless image compression using switched linear prediction. Report in PDF with code in C.
http://www3.tokai.or.jp/sjw/compress/compress.html

MacKiDo

Provides brief overview of shape compression, run-length encoding, and Lempel-Ziv.
http://www.igeek.com/articles/Software/Compression.txt

Data Compression

From PC Webopedia definition and links.
http://webopedia.com/TERM/d/data_compression.html

Complementary Positional Encoding

A lossless text compression algorithm. Description and C++ implementation.
http://www.geocities.com/vln_prj/

Compression - Computing Reference

Explanation of compression and various compression schemes at eLook Computing Reference.
http://www.elook.org/computing/compression.htm