This white paper describes a fixed probability prototype of a VHDL implementation of an arithmetic coder for Dirac video coding. The technical background of arithmetic coding is also described.

Through the use of accurate models,Arithmetic Coding becomes a excellent compression technology, its main advantage is that code can be arbitrarily close to the entropy. First of all, analy arithmetic ...

Coding, information theory and compression constitute the backbone of modern digital communications and data storage. Grounded in Shannon’s seminal work, information theory quantifies the ...

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This special issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory is dedicated to the memory of Alexander Vardy, a pioneer in the theory and practice of channel coding. His ...