DCC 2006 covers current research and studies on data compression for text, images, video, audio, and related areas. The conference focuses on topics such as: lossless and lossy compression algorithms, source and multiple description coding, quantization theory, vector quantization, encoding with wavelets, bi-level image compression, color image and video compression, geometry compression, and speech and audio compression. Its papers also explore parallel compression algorithms and hardware, adaptive compression algorithms, string searching and manipulation, system issues, medical |