Data Compression Tech-Cs

Technical Seminar Presentation 2005
National Institute of Science and Technology
A Review of Data Compression Techniques
Presented
by
Sudeepta Mishra
Roll# CS200117052
At
NIST,Berhampur
Under the guidance of

Mr. Rowdra Ghatak
Sudeepta Mishra CS200117052 [1]
Introduction
• Data compression is the process of encoding data so

that it takes less storage space or less transmission time
than it would if it were not compressed.
• Compression is possible because most real-world data
is very redundant

Different Compression Techniques

• Mainly two types of data Compression techniques are

there.
– Loss less Compression.
Useful in spreadsheets, text,
executable program Compression.
– Lossy less Compression.
Compression of images, movies and sounds.

Types of Loss less data Compression

• Dictionary coders.
– Zip (file format).
– Lempel Ziv.
• Entropy encoding.
– Huffman coding (simple entropy coding).
• Run-length encoding.

Dictionary-Based Compression
• Dictionary-based algorithms do not encode

single symbols as variable-length bit strings;
they encode variable-length strings of symbols
as single tokens.
• The tokens form an index into a phrase
dictionary.
• If the tokens are smaller than the phrases
they replace, compression occurs.

Types of Dictionary
• Static Dictionary.
• Semi-Adaptive Dictionary.
• Adaptive Dictionary.
– Lempel Ziv algorithms belong to this category of
dictionary coders. The dictionary is being built in a
single pass, while at the same time encoding the data.
– The decoder can build up the dictionary in the same
way as the encoder while decompressing the data.

Dictionary-Based Compression: Example

• Using a English Dictionary the string:

“A good example of how dictionary based compression works”
• Gives : 1/1 822/3 674/4 1343/60 928/75 550/32 173/46 421/2
• Using the dictionary as lookup table, each word is coded as
x/y, where, x gives the page no. and y gives the number of
the word on that page. If the dictionary has 2,200 pages
with less than 256 entries per page: Therefore x requires 12
bits and y requires 8 bits, i.e., 20 bits per word (2.5 bytes per
word). Using ASCII coding the above string requires 48
bytes, whereas our encoding requires only 20 (<-2.5 * 8)
bytes: 50% compression.

Lempel Ziv
• It is a family of algorithms, stemming from the two

algorithms proposed by Jacob Ziv and Abraham Lempel in
their landmark papers in 1977 and 1978.
LZ77 LZ78
LZJ
LZR LZFG
LZW
LZSS LZH LZB LZC LZT LZMW

LZW Algorithm
• It is An improved version of LZ78 algorithm.

• Published by Terry Welch in 1984.
• A dictionary that is indexed by “codes” is used.
The dictionary is assumed to be initialized with
256 entries (indexed with ASCII codes 0 through
255) representing the ASCII table.

The LZW Algorithm (Compression)

W = NIL;
while (there is input){
K = next symbol from input;
if (WK exists in the dictionary) {
W = WK;
} else {
output (index(W));
add WK to the dictionary;
W = K;
}
}

The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Flow Chart

START
W= NULL
YES
IS EOF STOP
? NO
K=NEXT INPUT
YES
IS WK
W=WK
FOUND?
NO
OUTPUT INDEX OF W
ADD WK TO DICTIONARY
W=K

The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Example

• Input string is a b d c a d a c
• The Initial Dictionary
contains symbols like
a, b, c, d with their
index values as 1, 2, 3,
4 respectively.
• Now the input string
a 1
is read from left to
right. Starting from b 2
a. c 3
d 4


• W = Null a b d c a d a c
• K=a
• WK = a
K
In the dictionary.
a 1
b 2
c 3
d 4


• K = b. a b d c a d a c
• WK = ab
is not in the dictionary.
K
• Add WK to
dictionary 1
• Output code for a.
a 1 ab 5
• Set W = b
b 2
c 3
d 4


• K=d a b d c a d a c
• WK = bd
Not in the dictionary.
K
Add bd to dictionary.
• Output code b
1 2
• Set W = d a 1 ab 5
b 2 bd 6
c 3
d 4


• K=a a b d a b d a c
• WK = da
not in the dictionary.
K
• Add it to dictionary.
1 2 4
• Output code d
• Set W = a a 1 ab 5
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4


• K=b a b d a b d a c
• WK = ab
It is in the dictionary.
K
1 2 4
a 1 ab 5
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4


• K=d a b d a b d a c
• WK = abd
K
• Add W to the
1 2 4 5
dictionary.
• Output code for W.
a 1 ab 5
• Set W = d
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4 abd 8


• K=a a b d a b d a c
• WK = da
In the dictionary.
K
1 2 4 5
a 1 ab 5
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4 abd 8


• K=c a b d a b d a c
• WK = dac
K
• Add WK to the
1 2 4 5 7
dictionary.
• Output code for W.
a 1 ab 5 dac 9
• Set W = c
b 2 bd 6
• No input left so
c 3 da 7
output code for W.
d 4 abd 8


• The final output a b d a b d a c

string is
124573
K
• Stop.
1 2 4 5 7 3
a 1 ab 5 dac 9
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4 abd 8

LZW Decompression Algorithm

read a character k;
output k;
w = k;
while ( read a character k )
/* k could be a character or a code. */
{ entry = dictionary entry for k;
output entry;
add w + entry[0] to dictionary;
w = entry; }

LZW Decompression Algorithm Flow Chart

START
K=INPUT
Output K
W=K
YES
IS EOF STOP
?
NO
K=NEXT INPUT
ENTRY=DICTIONARY INDEX (K)
Output ENTRY
ADD W+ENTRY[0] TO DICTIONARY
W=ENTRY

The LZW Algorithm (Decompression) Example

1 2 4 5 7 3
• K=1
• Out put K (i.e. a)
K
• W=K
a
a 1
b 2
c 3
d 4


1 2 4 5 7 3
• K=2
• entry = b
K
• Output entry
• Add W + entry[0] to a b
dictionary
• W = entry[0] (i.e. b)
a 1 ab 5
b 2
c 3
d 4


1 2 4 5 7 3
• K=4
• entry = d
K
• Output entry
• Add W + entry[0] to a b d
dictionary
• W = entry[0] (i.e. d)
a 1 ab 5
b 2 bd 6
c 3
d 4


1 2 4 5 7 3
• K=5
• entry = ab
K
• Output entry
• Add W + entry[0] to a b d a b
dictionary
• W = entry[0] (i.e. a)
a 1 ab 5
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4


1 2 4 5 7 3
• K=7
• entry = da
K
• Output entry
• Add W + entry[0] to a b d a b d a
dictionary
• W = entry[0] (i.e. d)
a 1 ab 5
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4 abd 8


1 2 4 5 7 3
• K=3
• entry = c
K
• Output entry
• Add W + entry[0] to a b d a b d a c
dictionary
• W = entry[0] (i.e. c)
a 1 ab 5 dac 9
b 2 bd 6
c 3 da 7
d 4 abd 8

Advantages
• As LZW is adaptive dictionary coding no need to

transfer the dictionary explicitly.
• It will be created at the decoder side.
• LZW can be made really fast, it grabs a fixed number
of bits from input, so bit parsing is very easy, and table
look up is automatic.

Problems with the encoder

• What if we run out of space?

– Keep track of unused entries and use LRU (Last
Recently Used).
– Monitor compression performance and flush
dictionary when performance is poor.

Conclusion
• LZW has given new dimensions for the development of

new compression techniques.
• It has been implemented in well known compression
format like Acrobat PDF and many other types of
compression packages.
• In combination with other compression techniques
many other different compression techniques are
developed like LZMS.

REFERENCES
[1] http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/d/a/Data_Compression.html
[2] http://tuxtina.de/files/seminar/LempelZivReport.pdf
[3] BELL, T. C., CLEARY, J. G., AND WITTEN, I. H. Text
Compression. Prentice Hall, Upper Sadle River, NJ, 1990.
[4] http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/Multimedia/node214.html
[5] http://download.cdsoft.co.uk/tutorials/rlecompression/Run-
Length Encoding (RLE) Tutorial.htm
[6] David Salomon, Data Compression The Complete Reference,
Second Edition. Springer-Verlac, New York, Inc, 2001 reprint.
[7] http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Art_Huffman_p1.htm
[8] http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Art_Huffman_p2.htm
[9] Khalid Sayood, Introduction to Data Compression Second
Edition, Chapter 5, pp. 137-157, Harcourt India Private Limited.

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Technical Seminar Presentation 2005

National Institute of Science and Technology

A Review of Data Compression Techniques

Under the guidance of

• Data compression is the process of encoding data so

Sudeepta Mishra CS200117052 [2]

Different Compression Techniques

• Mainly two types of data Compression techniques are

Sudeepta Mishra CS200117052 [3]

Types of Loss less data Compression

Sudeepta Mishra CS200117052 [4]

• Dictionary-based algorithms do not encode

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Sudeepta Mishra CS200117052 [6]

Dictionary-Based Compression: Example

• Using a English Dictionary the string:

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• It is a family of algorithms, stemming from the two

LZSS LZH LZB LZC LZT LZMW

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• It is An improved version of LZ78 algorithm.

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The LZW Algorithm (Compression)

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The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Flow Chart

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The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Example

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The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Example

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The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Example

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The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Example

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The LZW Algorithm (Compression) Example

• The final output a b d a b d a c

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LZW Decompression Algorithm

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LZW Decompression Algorithm Flow Chart

ENTRY=DICTIONARY INDEX (K)

ADD W+ENTRY[0] TO DICTIONARY

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The LZW Algorithm (Decompression) Example

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