Compression Pointers - Hundreds of pointers to people, conferences, reports, source codes, research groups, and companies related to data, image, and audio compression.
comp.compression Frequently Asked QuestionsMitsuharu Arimura's Data Compression Pointers - Very large list of links, including books and lecture notes, benchmarkings, archives, image/graphic compression, fractal compression, wavelets, video and audio compression, and links to other link lists.
How Stuff Works: How File Compression Works - Detailed narrative fully describes how a file is actually deflated, or compressed to get rid of redundancy - and save space.
The LBE data compression algorithm - A Huffman like algorithm that uses triangular matricies, rather than binary trees, for string substitution. Free sourcecode available.
Dr Ross's Compression Crypt - LZRW* text compression algorithms. Links to other compression sites.
Data Compression Reference Center - Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, a glossary, and more.
Arturo Campos: compression programming - Articles on various compression algorithms.
The Data Compression Library - A catalog of resources and information related to Data Compression.
Data-Compression.com - A website devoted to the principles and practice of data compression.
3D Graphics Compression Homepage - a directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web
Sparse Matrix Compression Schemes - Pseudocode for a spare matrix compression algorithm.
The Canterbury Corpus - A set of benchmark results for various lossless compression methods. Includes test files and compression test results for many research compression methods.
MotionWavelets601 software video decoder - A software only codec and API for remotely decoding and displaying video files compressed with the ADV601 chip from Analog Devices; Windows only.
Practical Huffman Coding - A tutorial.
ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue - Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Tutorial on Image Compression - A tutorial on Image Compression, with step by step procedural examples and list of references, along with sample code.
Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms - A draft thesis discribing image compression basics using Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms.
PKZIP Application Note - Describes the compression and decompression algorithms used by PKZIP