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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="Golomb_coding" title="Golomb coding">Golomb coding</a>.</div>
<p>An <b>exponential-Golomb code</b> (or just <b>Exp-Golomb code</b>) is a type of <a href="Universal_code_(data_compression)" title="Universal code (data compression)">universal code</a>. To encode any <a href="Nonnegative_integer" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonnegative integer">nonnegative integer</a> <i>x</i> using the exp-Golomb code:
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<ol><li>Write down <i>x</i>+1 in binary</li>
<li>Count the bits written, subtract one, and write that number of starting zero bits preceding the previous bit string.</li></ol>
<p>The first few values of the code are:
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<pre> 0 ⇒ 1 ⇒ 1
1 ⇒ 10 ⇒ 010
2 ⇒ 11 ⇒ 011
3 ⇒ 100 ⇒ 00100
4 ⇒ 101 ⇒ 00101
5 ⇒ 110 ⇒ 00110
6 ⇒ 111 ⇒ 00111
7 ⇒ 1000 ⇒ 0001000
8 ⇒ 1001 ⇒ 0001001
...<sup id="cite_ref-richardson_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-richardson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>In the above examples, consider the case 3. For 3, x+1 = 3 + 1 = 4. 4 in binary is '100'. '100' has 3 bits, and 3-1 = 2. Hence add 2 zeros before '100', which is '00100'
</p><p>Similarly, consider 8. '8 + 1' in binary is '1001'. '1001' has 4 bits, and 4-1 is 3. Hence add 3 zeros before 1001, which is '0001001'.
</p><p>This is identical to the <a href="Elias_gamma_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Elias gamma code">Elias gamma code</a> of <i>x</i>+1, allowing it to encode 0.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Extension_to_negative_numbers">Extension to negative numbers</h2></div>
<p>Exp-Golomb coding is used in the <a href="H.264/MPEG-4_AVC" class="mw-redirect" title="H.264/MPEG-4 AVC">H.264/MPEG-4 AVC</a> and H.265 <a href="High_Efficiency_Video_Coding" title="High Efficiency Video Coding">High Efficiency Video Coding</a> video compression standards, in which there is also a variation for the coding of signed numbers by assigning the value 0 to the binary codeword '0' and assigning subsequent codewords to input values of increasing magnitude (and alternating sign, if the field can contain a negative number):
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<pre> 0 ⇒ 0 ⇒ 1 ⇒ 1
1 ⇒ 1 ⇒ 10 ⇒ 010
−1 ⇒ 2 ⇒ 11 ⇒ 011
2 ⇒ 3 ⇒ 100 ⇒ 00100
−2 ⇒ 4 ⇒ 101 ⇒ 00101
3 ⇒ 5 ⇒ 110 ⇒ 00110
−3 ⇒ 6 ⇒ 111 ⇒ 00111
4 ⇒ 7 ⇒ 1000 ⇒ 0001000
−4 ⇒ 8 ⇒ 1001 ⇒ 0001001
...<sup id="cite_ref-richardson_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-richardson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>In other words, a non-positive integer <i>x</i>≤0 is mapped to an even integer −2<i>x</i>, while a positive integer <i>x</i>>0 is mapped to an odd integer 2<i>x</i>−1.
</p><p>Exp-Golomb coding is also used in the <a href="Dirac_(video_compression_format)" title="Dirac (video compression format)">Dirac video codec</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Generalization_to_order_k">Generalization to order <i>k</i></h2></div>
<p>To encode larger numbers in fewer bits (at the expense of using more bits to encode smaller numbers), this can be generalized using a <a href="Nonnegative_integer" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonnegative integer">nonnegative integer</a> parameter <i>k</i>. To encode a nonnegative integer <i>x</i> in an order-<i>k</i> exp-Golomb code:
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<ol><li>Encode ⌊<i>x</i>/2<sup><i>k</i></sup>⌋ using order-0 exp-Golomb code described above, then</li>
<li>Encode <i>x</i> mod 2<sup><i>k</i></sup> in binary with k bits</li></ol>
<p>An equivalent way of expressing this is:
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<ol><li>Encode <i>x</i>+2<sup><i>k</i></sup>−1 using the order-0 exp-Golomb code (i.e. encode <i>x</i>+2<sup><i>k</i></sup> using the Elias gamma code), then</li>
<li>Delete <i>k</i> leading zero bits from the encoding result</li></ol>
<table class="wikitable">
<caption>Exp-Golomb-<i>k</i> coding examples
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<tbody><tr>
<th> <i>x</i> </th>
<th><i>k</i>=0</th>
<th><i>k</i>=1</th>
<th><i>k</i>=2</th>
<th><i>k</i>=3
</th>
<td rowspan="11">
</td>
<th> <i>x</i> </th>
<th><i>k</i>=0</th>
<th><i>k</i>=1</th>
<th><i>k</i>=2</th>
<th><i>k</i>=3
</th>
<td rowspan="11">
</td>
<th> <i>x</i> </th>
<th><i>k</i>=0</th>
<th><i>k</i>=1</th>
<th><i>k</i>=2</th>
<th><i>k</i>=3
</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>0</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>1000
</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>0001011</td>
<td>001100</td>
<td>01110</td>
<td>010010
</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>000010101</td>
<td>00010110</td>
<td>0011000</td>
<td>011100
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>010</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>101</td>
<td>1001
</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>0001100</td>
<td>001101</td>
<td>01111</td>
<td>010011
</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>000010110</td>
<td>00010111</td>
<td>0011001</td>
<td>011101
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>011</td>
<td>0100</td>
<td>110</td>
<td>1010
</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>0001101</td>
<td>001110</td>
<td>0010000</td>
<td>010100
</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>000010111</td>
<td>00011000</td>
<td>0011010</td>
<td>011110
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>00100</td>
<td>0101</td>
<td>111</td>
<td>1011
</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>0001110</td>
<td>001111</td>
<td>0010001</td>
<td>010101
</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>000011000</td>
<td>00011001</td>
<td>0011011</td>
<td>011111
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>00101</td>
<td>0110</td>
<td>01000</td>
<td>1100
</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>0001111</td>
<td>00010000</td>
<td>0010010</td>
<td>010110
</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>000011001</td>
<td>00011010</td>
<td>0011100</td>
<td>00100000
</td></tr>
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<td>5</td>
<td>00110</td>
<td>0111</td>
<td>01001</td>
<td>1101
</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>000010000</td>
<td>00010001</td>
<td>0010011</td>
<td>010111
</td>
<td>25</td>
<td>000011010</td>
<td>00011011</td>
<td>0011101</td>
<td>00100001
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td>00111</td>
<td>001000</td>
<td>01010</td>
<td>1110
</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>000010001</td>
<td>00010010</td>
<td>0010100</td>
<td>011000
</td>
<td>26</td>
<td>000011011</td>
<td>00011100</td>
<td>0011110</td>
<td>00100010
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td>0001000</td>
<td>001001</td>
<td>01011</td>
<td>1111
</td>
<td>17</td>
<td>000010010</td>
<td>00010011</td>
<td>0010101</td>
<td>011001
</td>
<td>27</td>
<td>000011100</td>
<td>00011101</td>
<td>0011111</td>
<td>00100011
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td>0001001</td>
<td>001010</td>
<td>01100</td>
<td>010000
</td>
<td>18</td>
<td>000010011</td>
<td>00010100</td>
<td>0010110</td>
<td>011010
</td>
<td>28</td>
<td>000011101</td>
<td>00011110</td>
<td>000100000</td>
<td>00100100
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td>0001010</td>
<td>001011</td>
<td>01101</td>
<td>010001
</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>000010100</td>
<td>00010101</td>
<td>0010111</td>
<td>011011
</td>
<td>29</td>
<td>000011110</td>
<td>00011111</td>
<td>000100001</td>
<td>00100101
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Elias_gamma_coding" title="Elias gamma coding">Elias gamma (γ) coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Elias_delta_coding" title="Elias delta coding">Elias delta (δ) coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Elias_omega_coding" title="Elias omega coding">Elias omega (ω) coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_code_(data_compression)" title="Universal code (data compression)">Universal code</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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</style><div id="Data_compression_methods241" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Data_compression" title="Data compression">Data compression</a> methods</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Lossless_compression" title="Lossless compression">Lossless</a><br>type</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Entropy_coding" title="Entropy coding">Entropy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_coding" title="Adaptive coding">Adaptive coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Arithmetic_coding" title="Arithmetic coding">Arithmetic</a></li>
<li><a href="Asymmetric_numeral_systems" title="Asymmetric numeral systems">Asymmetric numeral systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Golomb_coding" title="Golomb coding">Golomb</a></li>
<li><a href="Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman</a>
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_Huffman_coding" title="Adaptive Huffman coding">Adaptive</a></li>
<li><a href="Canonical_Huffman_code" title="Canonical Huffman code">Canonical</a></li>
<li><a href="Modified_Huffman_coding" title="Modified Huffman coding">Modified</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Range_coding" title="Range coding">Range</a></li>
<li><a href="Shannon_coding" title="Shannon coding">Shannon</a></li>
<li><a href="Shannon%E2%80%93Fano_coding" title="Shannon–Fano coding">Shannon–Fano</a></li>
<li><a href="Shannon%E2%80%93Fano%E2%80%93Elias_coding" title="Shannon–Fano–Elias coding">Shannon–Fano–Elias</a></li>
<li><a href="Tunstall_coding" title="Tunstall coding">Tunstall</a></li>
<li><a href="Unary_coding" title="Unary coding">Unary</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_code_(data_compression)" title="Universal code (data compression)">Universal</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Fibonacci_coding" title="Fibonacci coding">Fibonacci</a></li>
<li><a href="Elias_gamma_coding" title="Elias gamma coding">Gamma</a></li>
<li><a href="Levenshtein_coding" title="Levenshtein coding">Levenshtein</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Dictionary_coder" title="Dictionary coder">Dictionary</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Byte-pair_encoding" title="Byte-pair encoding">Byte-pair encoding</a></li>
<li><a href="LZ77_and_LZ78" title="LZ77 and LZ78">Lempel–Ziv</a>
<ul><li><a href="842_(compression_algorithm)" title="842 (compression algorithm)">842</a></li>
<li><a href="LZ4_(compression_algorithm)" title="LZ4 (compression algorithm)">LZ4</a></li>
<li><a href="LZJB" class="mw-redirect" title="LZJB">LZJB</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Oberhumer" title="Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer">LZO</a></li>
<li><a href="LZRW" title="LZRW">LZRW</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Storer%E2%80%93Szymanski" title="Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski">LZSS</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Welch" title="Lempel–Ziv–Welch">LZW</a></li>
<li><a href="LZWL" title="LZWL">LZWL</a></li>
<li><a href="Snappy_(compression)" title="Snappy (compression)">Snappy</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform" title="Burrows–Wheeler transform">BWT</a></li>
<li><a href="Context_tree_weighting" title="Context tree weighting">CTW</a></li>
<li><a href="Context_mixing" title="Context mixing">CM</a></li>
<li><a href="Delta_encoding" title="Delta encoding">Delta</a>
<ul><li><a href="Incremental_encoding" title="Incremental encoding">Incremental</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_Markov_compression" title="Dynamic Markov compression">DMC</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a></li>
<li><a href="Grammar-based_code" title="Grammar-based code">Grammar</a>
<ul><li><a href="Re-Pair" title="Re-Pair">Re-Pair</a></li>
<li><a href="Sequitur_algorithm" title="Sequitur algorithm">Sequitur</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">LDCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Move-to-front_transform" title="Move-to-front transform">MTF</a></li>
<li><a href="PAQ" title="PAQ">PAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="Prediction_by_partial_matching" title="Prediction by partial matching">PPM</a></li>
<li><a href="Run-length_encoding" title="Run-length encoding">RLE</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hybrid</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>LZ77 + Huffman
<ul><li><a href="Deflate" title="Deflate">Deflate</a></li>
<li><a href="LZX" title="LZX">LZX</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Stac" title="Lempel–Ziv–Stac">LZS</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + ANS
<ul><li><a href="LZFSE" title="LZFSE">LZFSE</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + Huffman + ANS
<ul><li><a href="Zstd" title="Zstd">Zstandard</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + Huffman + context
<ul><li><a href="Brotli" title="Brotli">Brotli</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZSS + Huffman
<ul><li><a href="LHA_(file_format)" title="LHA (file format)">LHA/LZH</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + Range
<ul><li><a href="LZMA" title="LZMA">LZMA</a></li>
<li>LZHAM</li></ul></li>
<li>RLE + BWT + MTF + Huffman
<ul><li><a href="Bzip2" title="Bzip2">bzip2</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Lossy_compression" title="Lossy compression">Lossy</a><br>type</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Transform_coding" title="Transform coding">Transform</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">Discrete cosine transform</a>
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">DCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Modified_discrete_cosine_transform" title="Modified discrete cosine transform">MDCT</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_sine_transform" title="Discrete sine transform">DST</a></li>
<li><a href="Fast_Fourier_transform" title="Fast Fourier transform">FFT</a></li>
<li><a href="Wavelet_transform" title="Wavelet transform">Wavelet</a>
<ul><li><a href="Daubechies_wavelet" title="Daubechies wavelet">Daubechies</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_wavelet_transform" title="Discrete wavelet transform">DWT</a></li>
<li><a href="Set_partitioning_in_hierarchical_trees" title="Set partitioning in hierarchical trees">SPIHT</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Predictive</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a>
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation">ADPCM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Linear_predictive_coding" title="Linear predictive coding">LPC</a>
<ul><li><a href="Algebraic_code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Algebraic code-excited linear prediction">ACELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Code-excited linear prediction">CELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Log_area_ratio" title="Log area ratio">LAR</a></li>
<li><a href="Line_spectral_pairs" title="Line spectral pairs">LSP</a></li>
<li><a href="Warped_linear_predictive_coding" title="Warped linear predictive coding">WLPC</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Motion
<ul><li><a href="Motion_compensation" title="Motion compensation">Compensation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_estimation" title="Motion estimation">Estimation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_vector" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion vector">Vector</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Psychoacoustics" title="Psychoacoustics">Psychoacoustic</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Data_compression#Audio" title="Data compression">Audio</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bit_rate" title="Bit rate">Bit rate</a>
<ul><li><a href="Average_bitrate" title="Average bitrate">ABR</a></li>
<li><a href="Constant_bitrate" title="Constant bitrate">CBR</a></li>
<li><a href="Variable_bitrate" title="Variable bitrate">VBR</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Companding" title="Companding">Companding</a></li>
<li><a href="Convolution" title="Convolution">Convolution</a></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_range" title="Dynamic range">Dynamic range</a></li>
<li><a href="Latency_(audio)" title="Latency (audio)">Latency</a></li>
<li><a href="Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem" title="Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem">Nyquist–Shannon theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Sampling_(signal_processing)" title="Sampling (signal processing)">Sampling</a></li>
<li><a href="Silence_compression" title="Silence compression">Silence compression</a></li>
<li><a href="Sound_quality" title="Sound quality">Sound quality</a></li>
<li><a href="Speech_coding" title="Speech coding">Speech coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Sub-band_coding" title="Sub-band coding">Sub-band coding</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Audio_codec" title="Audio codec">Codec</a><br>parts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="A-law_algorithm" title="A-law algorithm">A-law</a></li>
<li><a href="%CE%9C-law_algorithm" title="Μ-law algorithm">μ-law</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a>
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation">ADPCM</a></li>
<li><a href="Delta_modulation" title="Delta modulation">DM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Fourier_transform" title="Fourier transform">FT</a>
<ul><li><a href="Fast_Fourier_transform" title="Fast Fourier transform">FFT</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Linear_predictive_coding" title="Linear predictive coding">LPC</a>
<ul><li><a href="Algebraic_code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Algebraic code-excited linear prediction">ACELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Code-excited linear prediction">CELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Log_area_ratio" title="Log area ratio">LAR</a></li>
<li><a href="Line_spectral_pairs" title="Line spectral pairs">LSP</a></li>
<li><a href="Warped_linear_predictive_coding" title="Warped linear predictive coding">WLPC</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Modified_discrete_cosine_transform" title="Modified discrete cosine transform">MDCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Psychoacoustics" title="Psychoacoustics">Psychoacoustic model</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Image_compression" title="Image compression">Image</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Chroma_subsampling" title="Chroma subsampling">Chroma subsampling</a></li>
<li><a href="Coding_tree_unit" title="Coding tree unit">Coding tree unit</a></li>
<li><a href="Color_space" title="Color space">Color space</a></li>
<li><a href="Compression_artifact" title="Compression artifact">Compression artifact</a></li>
<li><a href="Image_resolution" title="Image resolution">Image resolution</a></li>
<li><a href="Macroblock" title="Macroblock">Macroblock</a></li>
<li><a href="Pixel" title="Pixel">Pixel</a></li>
<li><a href="Peak_signal-to-noise_ratio" title="Peak signal-to-noise ratio">PSNR</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantization_(image_processing)" title="Quantization (image processing)">Quantization</a></li>
<li><a href="Standard_test_image" title="Standard test image">Standard test image</a></li>
<li><a href="Texture_compression" title="Texture compression">Texture compression</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Methods</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Chain_code" title="Chain code">Chain code</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">DCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Deflate" title="Deflate">Deflate</a></li>
<li><a href="Fractal_compression" title="Fractal compression">Fractal</a></li>
<li><a href="Karhunen%E2%80%93Lo%C3%A8ve_theorem" class="mw-redirect" title="Karhunen–Loève theorem">KLT</a></li>
<li><a href="Pyramid_(image_processing)" title="Pyramid (image processing)">LP</a></li>
<li><a href="Run-length_encoding" title="Run-length encoding">RLE</a></li>
<li><a href="Wavelet_transform" title="Wavelet transform">Wavelet</a>
<ul><li><a href="Daubechies_wavelet" title="Daubechies wavelet">Daubechies</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_wavelet_transform" title="Discrete wavelet transform">DWT</a></li>
<li><a href="Embedded_zerotrees_of_wavelet_transforms" title="Embedded zerotrees of wavelet transforms">EZW</a></li>
<li><a href="Set_partitioning_in_hierarchical_trees" title="Set partitioning in hierarchical trees">SPIHT</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Data_compression#Video" title="Data compression">Video</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bit_rate" title="Bit rate">Bit rate</a>
<ul><li><a href="Average_bitrate" title="Average bitrate">ABR</a></li>
<li><a href="Constant_bitrate" title="Constant bitrate">CBR</a></li>
<li><a href="Variable_bitrate" title="Variable bitrate">VBR</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Display_resolution" title="Display resolution">Display resolution</a></li>
<li><a href="Film_frame" title="Film frame">Frame</a></li>
<li><a href="Frame_rate" title="Frame rate">Frame rate</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_compression_picture_types" title="Video compression picture types">Frame types</a></li>
<li><a href="Interlaced_video" title="Interlaced video">Interlace</a></li>
<li><a href="Video#Characteristics_of_video_streams" title="Video">Video characteristics</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_quality" title="Video quality">Video quality</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Video_codec" title="Video codec">Codec</a><br>parts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">DCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a></li>
<li><a href="Deblocking_filter" title="Deblocking filter">Deblocking filter</a></li>
<li><a href="Lapped_transform" title="Lapped transform">Lapped transform</a></li>
<li>Motion
<ul><li><a href="Motion_compensation" title="Motion compensation">Compensation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_estimation" title="Motion estimation">Estimation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_vector" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion vector">Vector</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Wavelet_transform" title="Wavelet transform">Wavelet</a>
<ul><li><a href="Daubechies_wavelet" title="Daubechies wavelet">Daubechies</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_wavelet_transform" title="Discrete wavelet transform">DWT</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Information_theory" title="Information theory">Theory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Compressed_data_structure" title="Compressed data structure">Compressed data structures</a>
<ul><li><a href="Compressed_suffix_array" title="Compressed suffix array">Compressed suffix array</a></li>
<li><a href="FM-index" title="FM-index">FM-index</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Entropy_(information_theory)" title="Entropy (information theory)">Entropy</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_theory" title="Information theory">Information theory</a>
<ul><li><a href="Timeline_of_information_theory" title="Timeline of information theory">Timeline</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Kolmogorov_complexity" title="Kolmogorov complexity">Kolmogorov complexity</a></li>
<li><a href="Prefix_code" title="Prefix code">Prefix code</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantization_(signal_processing)" title="Quantization (signal processing)">Quantization</a></li>
<li><a href="Rate%E2%80%93distortion_theory" title="Rate–distortion theory">Rate–distortion</a></li>
<li><a href="Redundancy_(information_theory)" title="Redundancy (information theory)">Redundancy</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_compression_symmetry" title="Data compression symmetry">Symmetry</a></li>
<li><a href="Smallest_grammar_problem" title="Smallest grammar problem">Smallest grammar problem</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Phil_Katz" title="Phil Katz">Phil Katz</a></li></ul>
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