compression algorithm

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compression
noun[U]
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/kəmˈpreʃ.ən/us
/kəmˈpreʃ.ən/
the act of pressing something into a smaller space or putting pressure on it from different sides until it ...
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algorithm
noun[C]
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/ˈæl.ɡə.rɪ.ðəm/us
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a set of mathematical instructions or rules that, especially if given to a computer, will help to calculate an answer to ...
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Acompressionalgorithm, for example, knowing that a signal contains speech can use a method that takes advantage of speech characteristics to achieve a higher compression rate.
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Thecompressionalgorithmof one screen and stereo recording from the back of the house simply does not suffice; the immersive quality is completely lost in translation.
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That is why most of the time will be sufficient to use as a method ofcompressionalgorithmof allocation of bits.
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Changes in kernel 3.15 also provide performance improvements, as well as the ability to switch thecompressionalgorithmvia sysfs.
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For acompressionalgorithmto be lossless, the compression map must form a bijection between plain and compressed bit sequences.
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As a blockcompressionalgorithm, it compresses and decompresses blocks of data.
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The minimization of perceivable artifacts is a key goal in implementing a lossycompressionalgorithm.
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Alternatively, thecompressionalgorithmmay not be intelligent enough to discriminate between distortions of little subjective importance and those objectionable to the viewer.
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An obvious way of detection is applying a rawcompressionalgorithmand testing if its output is smaller than its input.
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For instance, the spectral imagecompressionalgorithmis based on the singular value decomposition.
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It was later specified as acompressionalgorithmfor various network protocols.
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To preserve forward and backward compatibility between versions as thecompressionalgorithmis improved, it stores the decompression algorithm in the archive.
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The profile defines the subset of features such ascompressionalgorithm, chroma format, etc.
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Power graph analysis can be thought of as a losslesscompressionalgorithmfor graphs.
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It is acompressionalgorithmused to compress correlated data sources.
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Thecompressionalgorithmand cluster size is specified on a per-file basis.
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Because of the pigeonhole principle, every lossless datacompressionalgorithmwill end up increasing the size of some inputs.
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The application uses a 64-bit block cipher algorithm for encryption and a proprietarycompressionalgorithm.
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The second stage uses a standardcompressionalgorithm(bzip2) to compress the output of the first stage.
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Any losslesscompressionalgorithmthat makes some files shorter must necessarily make some files longer, but it is not necessary that those files become "very much" longer.
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That is why we needcompressionalgorithm.
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