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Source Coding Techniques

Source coding is based on the content of the original signal is also called semantic-based coding

High compression rates may be high but a price of loss of information. Good compression rates make be achieved with source encoding with lossless or little loss of information.

There are three broad methods that exist:



 

Dave Marshall
10/4/2001