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  • Image Compression

    Image compression, the art and science of reducing the amount of data required to represent an image, is one of the most useful and commercially successful technologies in the field of digital image processing. The number of images that are compressed and decompressed daily is staggering, and the compressions and decompressions themselves are virtually invisible to the user. Anyone who owns a digital camera, surfs the web, or watches the latest Hollywood movies on Digital Video Disks (DVDs) benefits from the algorithms and standards discussed in this chapter.

    • The term data compression refers to the process of reducing the amount of data required to represent a given quantity of information. In this definition, data and information are not the same thing; data are the means by which information is conveyed.