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Stuart Inglis -- State of the art lossless image compression. Beats DjVU!

Internz ltd. -- When your problems are hard, contact this company.
Leadtools -- Compression toolkits
Tham, Jo Yew -- He's moved/updated
Berndtgen, Manfred -- Wavestat
Ratushnyak, Alexander Alan
Elec. Eng. at Univ. of Washington -- VQ and more!
Russian compression sites
Ekstrand, Nicklas -- Lossless image compression
LZW-FP and FPA -- Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE'98)
ARI, Eri32 and Bmp2Eri
BMF, ERI, PNG and other lossless compressors tested
Imagetool
Nelson, Mark -- Mark as moved
Wavelets at National University of Singapore
Fast multisymbol entropy coder similar to arithmetic coding (GPL)available.
Practical Huffman encoding
Compression Consulting Schindler -- Consulting services
Balkenhol, Bernhard
LZO library -- New location
Sub-linear Decoding of Huffman Codes Almost In-Place (postscript)
Po, Lai Man -- VQ, Motion, Wavelets
Compression Reference Center

ELS arithmetic coder -- Dr. Dobbs Journal FMAH site, Yale
JPEG recompressor -- Netscape Plug-in
Innovative Routines International -- x-Press cross-platform compression software
Michael Schindler -- SZIP, application specific compression
Decision-Science Applications, Inc. -- (NIMA) lossy greyscale compression & more!
hifi.com -- subsidiary of Stac. Compression and Encryption.
Dr Ross's Compression Crypt -- "A Must See" for you all
Xuaugn Yang -- PhD Student
Ligos Technology -- Multimedia innovations/LSX-MPEG
Advanced Hardware Architectures -- Lossless compression products

People

A

Adler, Mark -- Info-ZIP; Zip, UnZip, gzip and zlib co-author; PNG group

B

Baker, Matthew -- Region based video compression
Balkenhol, Bernhard
Bamberger, Roberto H.
Bell, Daniel -- Region based image compression
Bell, Tim -- compression, computer science for children, and computers and music.
Bellard, Fabrice -- Author of LZEXE
Berghorn, Willy
Bhaskaran, Vasudev -- Image and Video compression
Bloom, Charles -- text compression, LZ methods, PPM methods...
Brislawn, Christopher -- Wavelets, Image Coding, FBI Compression Standard

Brito, Roger -- Arithmetic Coding, LZW, Text Compression
Budge, Scott E. -- medical/lossy image compression
Burnett, Ian -- Speech coding, prototype waveform techniques

C

Chan, Christopher -- universal lossy source coding, adaptive VQ
Chao, Hong-yang -- Lightning strike image compressor
Chao, Stewart
Cherriman, Peter
Cheung, S.C. -- Scalable video compression algorithms
Christopoulos, Charilaos -- Image and Video compression
Chrysafis, Christos
Chung, Wilson C. -- R-D image and video coding, subband/wavelet, filter banks
Clark, Alan -- primary contact for V.42bis. Developed BTLZ variant of LZW
Cleary, John -- PPM, PPM*, K*
Cohn, Martin
Cormack, Gordon V. -- DMC
Cramer, Chris -- neural network image compression

D

Danskin, John -- Protocol compression, document compression
Darlington, Stephen -- Windows addZIP Compression libraries

Davis, Geoff -- wavelets, image compression, medical
Davoine, Franck -- Fractal image coding/Low BR

Delgrange, Olivier -- Compression used to analyse genetic sequences
Dilger, Andreas -- fractal block coding of video sequences

E

Ekstrand, Nicklas -- Lossless image compression
Estes, Robert -- I.C., Analysis based coding, image quality (PQS)

F

Feldmann, Harald -- HAP
Fisher, Yuval -- Fractal Image Compression
Ford, Adrian -- Subjective and Objective Compression quality

G

Gailly, Jean-loup --Mr. gzip, PNG, CCR
Gersho, Allen -- Vector Quantisation, Image Compression
Gilchrist, Jeff -- Data Compression and Security, A.C.T. page

Goertzel, Ben
Gooch, Mark -- High Performance Hardware Compression
Goyal, Vivek -- overcomplete representations, adaptive transform coding, VQ
Gray, Robert M. -- Signal compression, VQ, image quality evaluation

H

Hafner, Ullrich -- WFA image compression
Hirschberg, Dan -- algorithm theory, compression
Holland, Scott
Horspool, R. Nigel -- text compression, ECG compression

I

Inglis, Stuart -- image compression, OCR, lossy/lossless document compression

J

Jones, Douglas -- splay-tree based compression and encryption
Jones, Simon -- Lossless compression, High Performance Hardware
Jordan, Frederic -- Parallel Image Compression
Jung, Robert K. -- ARJ
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K

Kominek, John -- Fractal and spline based compression
Kjelso, Morten -- Main memory compression, High performance hardware
Kohmanyuk, Dmitry -- Text Compression/JAM Software

Kuhn, Markus -- JBIG implementation
Kuo, C.-C. Jay
Kuru, Esa
Kyfonidis, Theodoros

L

Lamparter, Bernd
Langdon, Glen
Larsson, Jesper -- algorithms and data structures, text compression
Lonardi, Stefano

M

Manber, Udi
Mangen, Jean-Michel -- image compression, wavelets, satellite
Moffat, Alistair -- text and index compression, coding methods, information retrieval, document databases
Montgomery, Christopher -- OggSquish, audio compression
Mueller, Urban Dominik -- XPK system

N

Neal, Radford
Mark Nelson -- The Data Compression Book
Nevill-Manning, Craig
Nicholls, Jeremy
Noah, Matt -- speech, ATC, ACELP and IMBE
Nuri, Veyis -- wavelets, data compression, DSP (speech & image)

O

Oberhumer, Markus
Oleg -- Lots of code
Ortega, Antonio -- Video compression, Packet video, Adaptive quantization
Osberger, Wilfried -- Objective Image and Video Quality

Owen, Charles

P

Po, Lai Man -- VQ, Motion, Wavelets
Provine, Joseph -- Model based coding

R

Ratushnyak, Alexander Alan

Rivals, Eric -- Compression and Genetic Sequences Analysis
Robinson, John -- Binary Tree Predictive Coding
Roelofs, Greg -- Info-ZIP; primary UnZip author; PNG group
Rose, Kenneth
Russo, Roberto Maria -- Multiplatform Data Compression

S

Schmidt, Bill
Seward, Julian -- Compilers, Architecture and Text Compression, BZIP
Shaw, Sandy C.
Sharifi, Kamran -- Video over ATM networks
Shende, Sunil M.
Silverstein, D. Amnon
Smoot, Steve -- MPEG
Storer, James A.
Streit, Jurgen -- Low bitrate coding
Strutz, Tilo -- Wavelet image compressor, demonstration execs

T

Tate, Steve
Teahan, Bill -- PPM, PPM*, master of the Calgary Corpus
Tham, Jo Yew -- Wavelet Researcher

Thomson, Duncan -- ECG compression with ANNs
Tilton, James C.
Tomczyk, Marek
Turpin, Andrew -- Prefix Codes

V

Vaisey, Jacques -- image and video compression
Valenta, Vladimir
Vetterli, Martin -- wavelets, subband coding, video compression, computational complexity
Vitter, Jeff
Voukelatos, Stathis
de Vries, Nico -- AIP-NL, UltraCompressor II development

W

Wareham, Paul -- Region-oriented video coding
Wegener, Al -- DSP, lossless audio compression and AC-2
Wei, Dong -- Wavelet compression
Williams, Ross
Witten, Ian -- PPM, mg, arithmetic coding
Wolff, Gerry
Woo, Woon-Tack -- stereo image and video compression
Wu, Xiaolin -- CALIC