Data compression is one of the most important fields and tools in modern computing from archiving data to cd roms and from coding theory to image analysis many facets of modern computing rely upon data compression data compression provides a comprehensive reference for the many different types and methods of compression included are a detailed and helpful taxonomy analysis of most . Data compression the complete reference third edition with 537 figures 6 in full color david salomon department of computer science california state university northridge northridge ca 91330 8281 usa dsalomoncsunedu library of congress cataloging in publication data salomon d david 1938 data compression david salomon p cm includes bibliographical references and index isbn 0 . The complete reference viii o the second new chapter chapter 6 discusses video compression the chapter opens with a general description of crt operation and basic analog and digital video concepts it continues with a general discussion of video compression and it concludes with a description of mpeg 1 and h261. Data compression is one of the most important techniques in computing engineering from archiving data to cd roms and from coding theory to image analysis many facets of computing make use of data compression in one form or another this book is intended to provide an overview of the many different types of compression it includes a taxonomy an analysis of the most common systems of