Vector Quantization and Signal Compression
Gray, Robert M. / Gersho, Allen![Vector Quantization and Signal Compression](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/152/15215000/CHSBZCOP0315215000.jpg)
Herb Caen, a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, recently quoted a Voice of America press release as saying that it was reorganizing in order to "eliminate duplication and redundancy. " This quote both states a goal of data compression and illustrates its common need: the removal of duplication (or redundancy) can provide a more efficient representation of data and the quoted phrase is itself a candidate for such surgery. Not on...