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From: dds@sunb.cc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis)
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Subject: Re: Compression of multi-bit images
Keywords: delta modulation compression
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Date: 6 Jun 90 21:57:49 GMT
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In article <SPENCER.90Jun4170821@spline.eecs.umich.edu> spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
>Lossless methods:
>A popular method is LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) as found in the Unix 'compress'
>program.  
[...]
>
>Simple Huffman (adaptive or otherwise (the Unix 'pack' program) may do
[...]

Some time ago I implemented a compress / uncompress set of programs for a
face server project that was going on here, based on delta modulation. The
compressed file contains the difference of each byte from the previous
one, coded in a single nibble.  I tried the delta modulation programs, 
compress and pack on a 256 * 256 * 8 gray scale picture of me.

These are the results:

Original			65536
/bin/pack			59660
/usr/ucb/compress		53510
../deltac			40489

I can post the programs if there is demand.

Diomidis
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